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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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Critical Message Filter on Operator Message for IBM Navigator for i Interface

The Dashboard within IBM Navigator for i has a window for tracking critical messages. This count is only reduced when the messages are deleted from QSYSOPR. As this message queue contains so many messages, this window can become meaning less. It w...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

TR level should be included in the front page of the RPG Reference

I'm saving a copy of the documentation for the ILE RPG Reference as a PDF-document on my PC. It is convenient when working off line or when the lines are slow. But I'm missing that the TR level is included in the front page (see attachment). It wo...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Delivered

Add full statement pop up when hovering over Show Statements plan cache list of statements like iNav

When using Show Statements window and I have a list of SQL statements from the plan cache, I used to have a pop up window showing the full statement of the one I am hovering over in iNav.That does NOT happen when doing the same in ACS, SQL perform...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Hover : exclude comments from beeing shown on definitions

Actually the hover function shows comments that the editor thinks may be relevant to a definition. It picks up any comment lines immediately preceding the item being defined.It should be possible to stop that, for example by inserting one/two blan...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Provide meaningful info with errpt id 32BB81EF and FBD8625E - UNKNOWN error against SEA

with VIO 3.1.3.21, errpt now shows entries with 32BB81EF and FBD8625E but the data is meaningless to the end user. Allegedly, this is an indication that the SEA has become "primary" again, according to IBM Support. But, errpt id E48A73A4 already t...
over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Delivered

Graph History Stacked Charts by Month: Stack by day of the week (Sun thru Sat) rather than day of the month (1-31)

Graph History stacked charts, when stacked by month, are not helpful as they are stacked by day of the month (1, 2, 3….). However, day of the month generally doesn't align with business activity. It would b much better for the charts to be stacked...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 4 Delivered

Additional Virtual Fiber Channel Cards

Individual virtual fiber channel cards, which are created per LPAR by PowerVC, can only support 32 or 64 LUNs (depending on the OS type/version). We often have machines that require hundreds of LUNs and it is very frustrating that we cannot do thi...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Need description field in Storage Template

In PowerVC there is no field for adding a description for a storage template e.g. Quality desciptorc etc.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

iACS - Run SQL Scripts - Display timestamp when query was executed in results window

The query results window does not give any indication of what time the query was run, so it can be confusing when displaying the same query run multiple times which results belong to which execution. Please display the timestamp when the query was...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS RSS uncommitted warning

With the transition from DDS to DDL we are also seeing an increase in the use of journaling.Currently the default of Run SQL Script is no to use commit. The "Isolation Level" value is "No commit". When you chasing this to "Uncommitted read" everyt...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered