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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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Option to turn off timestamp attached to downloaded file name

I am seeing timestamps attached to downloaded files in the BIP. I need the option to turn those off, my users are complaining. Use Case: User downloads a report into Excel format. He then must remove the timestamp before forwarding the file to a c...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 0 Delivered

Navigator for i - Ability to define initial screen after login. Replace "Welcome" screen with blank or other tab/screen.

Nav for I Welcome tab customization. Navigator for i - Ability to define initial screen after login. Replace "Welcome" screen in the right hand pane, with a blank or other Task screen. Even with restricted security, links on the Welcome screen are...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 7 Delivered

Add CORS support to the IBM i Application Server

The IBM i application server is designed to serve SOAP / REST APIs over a network. However it is lacking basic CORS support meaning that unless you are serving and consuming the APIs on the same server it is useless for Internet applications. Inte...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

IBM Navigator for i - Force login prompt when opening an EIM domain to work with Identifiers and Registries

Force login prompt for EIM domain in IBM Navigator for i. Use Case: Used by all clients who administer EIM from IBM Navigator for i at v7r2 and up. If clients do not sign in as the EIM domain admin, they cannot see the Identifiers.
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

Add Red Hat support in PowerVC SDI server nodes

We have proposed the PowerVC SDI solution to a Canadian university and they noted that they have free Red Hat licenses to apply to their solution however we specified Ubuntu 16.04 for the server nodes because this is the only supported hypervisor....
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

ACS OCT 2017 - Add a remove button on Preferences...Changing Passwords window

In ACS Oct 2017 verision. Preferences...Passwords tab...Changing IBM I Passwords.There's a change button.I need a REMOVE button to delete the entry.I accidentally added a connections with the wrong userid and now I can't get rid of the entry. Use ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Check the variable declaration when compiling the SQL Stored Procedure

There is a problem that variable declaration check is not performed when compiling (creating) a stored procedure, which causes an error in execution. --------------------------------------- (Example 1)IF SQLCODE = 100 THENSET O_MSG = '';ELSESET O_...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Request for enhancement for IBM i PowerHA to support a dynamic change of its enlisted DS8000 HyperSwap PPRC secondary device

Request for enhancement for IBM i PowerHA to support a dynamic change of its enlisted DS8000 HyperSwap PPRC secondary device configuration (ref. PMR 66756,180,846; CPS B9ZMF6) Use Case: Required enhancement to allow for an IBM i online data migrat...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Delivered

Same user sign on multiple Windows remote desktop, when use ACS, new ACS 5250 sessions always open on 1st desktop session

Customer use Win2012 remote desktop. If the user has 2 remote desktop sessions active, and use ACS, anytime user opens ACS on the 2nd remote desktop session, the ACS always open on the original session where it was first opened for that user. We s...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Add an HMC LDAP config option to set the scope from the HMC gui

In HMC gui in the LDAP configuration add an option to specify the search scope.The matching command on the HMC CLI ischhmcldap -o s --scope sub
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered