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IBM Power Ideas Portal


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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Enable the HMC to Take Over the Screen of vHMCs

Enable the physical HMC to take over the screen and the keyboard of vHMCs in the same DataCenter.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

High risk in IFS file system management

The Actions | Delete command within the Navigator for I web-based IFS interface allows the user to purge the entire contents of the folder they are viewing if no objects are selected. I've attached a PMR number under which we recovered from this v...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Implement TCP Selective Acknowledgements

Instead of re-transmitting the packet AND ALL SUBSEQUENT packets in a block, instead use Selective Acknowledgements to re transmit ONLY the packet in error. Today IBM i re-transmits many times the number of packets that are actually required! Use ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Add session or profile name to signon to IBM i window title

It would be useful if there was a way to tailor or add the session/profile name to the window title of the 'Signon to IBM i' prompt window. When using a password manager such as KeePass to manage passwords, such a product would need to distinguish...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

IWS - Enable tiered architecture for IBM Integrated Web Services for IBM i

Enable IWS to connect over a network from the IWS to a backend/RPG partition. The toolbox driver is used for the connection today, but the implementation in IWS is not supporting installing the IWS to another LPAR vs where the RPG program is insta...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Delivered

Filter RPG view by unused variables

At version 9.6 of RDi we can see which variables are not in use in various ways. Add to the "Filter view" context-menu option the ability to select "Unused" Use Case: With the current support I still need to scroll through a source member, looking...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Add special authority to CHANGE_USER_PROFILE function

Please add the ability to add or remove special authorities via the change user profiles sql function. Use Case: From a security perspective, if you have too many users that have allobj authority and you need to mass remove that special authority,...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

ACS System positioning

When using the Integrated File System of IBM i ACS, there is an option to end a file to another IBM i system. As we have several systems in the System Configuration it would be nice if we could use a letter to start positioning when selecting a sy...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

Would like to put the "Quick Filter" controls at the bottom of the Object List view.

The "Quick filter" controls are too wide when placed on the left or right side of the Object List view when the Object List view is tall and skinny. I run with the Object List view oriented vertically along the right-hand side of the RDi window, j...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

ACS Run Sql Scripts - enhance Output with two new abilities

Please provide ability for user to change column widths for all columns at once. and to click/drag multiple columns at once. Use Case: Examine following use-cases:1) View->Column Width->Size to Data - or something like that., Allowing user t...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered