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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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ACS: Add SSL/TLS support for Linux ODBC connections

The iACS ODBC driver for Linux does not support SSL/TLS connections. Please add SSL/TLS support to match the Windows version. Use Case: Encrypting connections to our IBM i partitions from Linux servers that use ODBC to connect to the database.
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

ACS - Enable to input/view "Yen" and "Backslash" at the same time

ACS 5250 emulation does not allow to view/input Yen-sign and Backslash at the same time.On version 1.1.8.1, only Yes-sign can be used and impossible to use Backslash.No problem on Access for Windows PC5250. In EBCDIC and Unicode, they have differe...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 10 Delivered

PowerVC - Customize the LPAR name, LUN's names and Storage Zoning names.

We have PowerVC setup to do storage provisioning and the PowerVC created LPAR, LUN's and Zoning names are currently not set as per our company standards.
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 7 Delivered

Procedure hover text for parameters

IBM Rational Developer for i (RDi) Version 9.6.0.1 gives hover text and content assist for procedures in RPGLE. This shows the parameters and the return type. You lose all of that when you start typing the parameters. Ideally, you'd get to keep th...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

ACS - Warning should be given to the user logging in if CAPS LOCK is activated

If CAPS LOCK is activated I would like to have a warning in the window where you give the user ID and password just like it is done in Windows. I assume that it is not possible in the 5250 screen but at least the small GUI window should do it. Use...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Change Open Source Member to Edit/Browse Mode

Currently if a source member is open in Browse mode, if I want to make a change, I have to close and re-open it in Edit mode. It would be nice if I could just use the right click menu to set Edit Mode. This would make a trip to the host to lock th...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Access Client Solutions (ACS) - missing IFS "Open with" (Microsoft Windows)

Within ACS we can open the "Integrated File System" support application. This tool is very fast and handy for navigating through the IFS and performing file operations (copy, delete, etc...). While navigating through directories small icons in fro...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Flexible sender email address

Have the option to have a flexible sender email address a CL command with which I can send email. Use Case: Customers require us to have more flexibility when sending email from IBM i. In not all cases the job with which we send email can be run u...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 12 Delivered

Change SQL Examples to search for just tokens not sentences

My current ACS release is 1.1.8.7. When I search for an example and I use words (tokens) that are in the displayed text but not in the order of the displayed text the search won't match. Make the SQL Examples use search word tokens to match to all...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

See the return value for a procedure in the debugger

A developer needs the ability to interrogate a subprocedure return value. For more information, see CAAC requirement AD0183 at https://www.ibmilug.ihost.com/commonag/treqs.nsf/9c76f872792db457862573af004e1b49/15e2bf03abc04e6486257611000cc6cd?OpenD...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Delivered