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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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DB2 for i Service to retrieve jobdescription JOBD information

We would like to have an IBM i db2 service to retrieve information about job descriptions - in particular which jobdescription uses which libraries Use Case: Many applications use jobdescriptions to define which library is used to access data. Dur...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

get n'th element in delimited string

in sql be able to extract the n'th element in a delimited string. would remove the need to use mutiple substring and posstr/locate. Use Case: select get_element('abc;def;100;;;qwert' , 3, ';') .... string, n'th element, delimiter would then return...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

QSH and QCMD shell directly in ACS

Provide ssh : sshfs, sftp, qsh and qcmd shell directly in ACS for fast administrative access. Use Case: Avoid to configure and work throuth a 5250 terminal and menu session first. Improve to access support of SSH setup. Efficent work from any java...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

add open file in (QDMLOPNF) to GET_JOB_INFO table function

please add to GET_JOB_INFO table function the jobs open file information as provided with API QDMLOPNF Use Case: none of the current SQL functions provide this information which will be helpful when looking for certain file information across jobs...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

Bring Node 8.x on IBM i

For going on with modern development on IBM i and to bring more developers and ISV's to the platform it will be very important to bring the latest LTS Release from Node(js) - Version 8.x - to the Platform as you did last year with Version 6.x. Use...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

LAN console setup - reduce complexity and use fixed parameters.

Newly delivered 41G system (with 7.4 preloaded) and LAN console. Proceeded as described inhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power9/9009-41G?topic=use-cabling-server-accessing-operations-consolebut - no console. Tested everything from cable, PC, settings...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 13 Delivered

Filter Outline by Referenced/Unref

Provide a means to filter fields/procedures/prototypes/etc by whether or not the module uses them. Use Case: Sometimes I want to see, at a glance, the external procedures that are used a module. The module may have access to a 100 external procedu...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Provide standardise approach for lsmpio metadata expansion

Currently there is no public information about what extended metadata attributes can be obtained from the storage to facilitate OS admin manipulation of storage.For example lsmpio -q presents on some devices the name of the volume and there could ...
about 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Remove TLSv1.1 from CIMOM

Remove TLSv1.1 from Port 5989 and 5990 (CIMOM) due to security requirement. Use Case: Remove TLSv1.1 from Port 5989 and 5990 (CIMOM) due to security requirement.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Delivered

add PHP port to RPMs

we need a port of PHP for RPMs. I do not want to replace Zend, but with it being a licensed program it is "harder" to get installed. the ported PHP would not need db2 support and all the bells & whistles Zend provides.we need a simple IFS only...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 Delivered

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