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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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My ideas: IBM i

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    Add the HTML documentation options from the Heritage Navigator for i to the new BRMS HTTP server

    In the Heritage Navigator for i BRMS gui section several options were available to create documentation. Those options did generate HTML documents. The quality of those HTML document was high. Allowing you to add them to your own BRMS documentatio...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

    As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
    2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 30 Under review

    Enhance the SNMP or PJL driver to allow drawer control for PDF files

    Enhance the SNMP and/or PJL driver to allow the inclusion of PJL drawer commands to allow PDF files to print to specific drawers. Currently IBM i does not support PCL6, and that, combined with the ease of using color with PDF files, has meant that...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

    Make available in ibm yum repo major ODBC DBMS

    Would be nice and of value having major DBMS available in IBM yum repo readily available to pull. For example we have already in @ibmi-base freetds-odbc.ppc64 for freetds would be nice to have for example mysql odbc, postgres compiled for PASE. th...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    Edit copy members in the same editor window they are used in

    It would be extremely useful and functional to be able to edit the included copy (/copy) members in the same editor where the main program is being edited.The ability to edit copy members by opening them directly from the main source is very conve...
    2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Under review

    Subfile size 32767 rows.

    Because the data to display are much more than in the past, we need to extend the maximum number of records allowed from 9999 to 32767.
    2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Add *ALLUSR in command RSTLIBBRM

    RSTLIBBRM SAVLIB(*ALLUSR) - this is required to restore to another partition using BRMS network.
    2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Needs more information

    Provide batch or command interface for the "Populate with CAs" function of Digital Certification Manager

    I have multiple LPARs, across multiple systems. When IBM comes out with a new SQL service to get data from some remote system and that system requires a new certificate it is very frustrating to have to log into DCM a bazillion times and execute "...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    ACS IFS - resolve correctly "well known locations" to the real physical folder

    Talking about Windows, ACS seems to not respect the client setting, assuming that the position of well known folders is fixed in a system. For example in ACS IFS browser, Edit-Preferences-Download Location is set to "Downloads folder". ACS assumes...
    2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Extend prototyped procedure calls with "keyword parameters"

    SQL has the nice feature, to use optionally use keyword parameters instead of positioned parameters. My idea is, also extend RPG prototyped procedure calls with the option to use keyword parameters. Imagine the following procedure prototype: dcl-p...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

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