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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

Hello, Sorry for the IBM AIX product name but this is about IBM/HCL Informix and I can't find the product name in the list... We have legacy Informix ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX Not under consideration

Orale OS Audit Script define multiple destination directories

We are in process of integrating oracleOsAudit log in Qradar, refer to this documentation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS42VS_DSM/com.ibm.dsm.doc/t_DSM_guide_Oracle_OSAudit_cfg.html), we have downloaded and configured perl script o...
almost 6 years ago in AIX Not under consideration

VisualAge for RPG

Allow users to import VisualAge for RPG projects & build .Windows applicaitons - or Java applications within RDi Use Case: Lots of home-grown software written on VisualAge for RPG. Because they were designed from the ground up (and not convert...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Not under consideration

PowerHA Gui remediation

we need support to remediate the following vulnerability report HA GUI clients SSL Certificate with Wrong Hostname RFE opened based on support recommendation , please see support update below Unfortunately, the approach of generating new set of se...
about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX Planned for future release

Cursor positioning

I am using version RDI 9.0.1. When a verification or compile are requested, and the Error List tab opens, you can click on the error and the cursor is positioned at that line. When you press arrow down, the cursor skips the lines added by the Erro...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Not under consideration

Rational Developer for I version 9.0.1 freezes up

We have been using Rational Developer for Power Systems v 8.5 for quite a while. Using this IDE, we had little to no problems. Entering source code into the editor was smooth as well as scrolling, and updating the outline. (it practically never fr...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Is a defect

Is there any way that SAS RAID adapter (FC: EJ0U) used in S824 server can support SCIS standard disk pages 0x80?

System : Steel Mill Cold Rolling SystemActor : Our Team want to Fix the this ErrorDescription: The current system provides service using Veritas InfoScale, and the server configures the internal disks to RAID to duplicate them using the InfoScale ...
about 6 years ago in AIX Not under consideration

Enhancement for mechanism to regulate Volume Manager Access for disks Provisioned across nodes.

Enhancement requested to restrict/regulate accidental provisioning of same disk (storage LUN) to multiple nodes at volume manager level(LVM) : In a customer environment multiple servers ,multiple LPAR's are managed by a SAN/NAS backed storage. It'...
about 6 years ago in AIX Not under consideration

HA GUI SSL Self-Signed Certificate

PowerHA ships with the ability to create a unique, self-signed certificate for each customer. we need the procedure for allowing us to purchase our own signed certificate
about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX Planned for future release

Provide code formatting feature for code indentations.

Please add a code formatting feature that allows me to indent free code that has gotten out of hand. It would be nice to have a property option to specify the start point of indenting (main line or procedures, as left as possible, inside sub routi...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Not under consideration