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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

My votes: IBM i

New QCALENDAR API.

The new QCALENDAR API can be called when the user presses F4 on a date-type field and allows them to select a date.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Provide a fast way to list PRINTER FILE objects

There is currently no scalable, programmatic interface dedicated to retrieving a list of printer files (*PRTF) on IBM i. To obtain a list of printer files today, applications must use any of these interfaces: DSPFD OUTPUT(*OUTFILE), QGYOLOBJ, QSYS...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Print Submitted

Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Add the autostart option to all IBM i Debug Servers and Debug Service

Currently in Navigator for i the TCP/IP server System Debugger consist of 3 instances the System Debugger, IDE Debugger Server and Debug Service. Unfortunately the Debug server is not available in the Navigator for i TCP/IP Configuration Propertie...
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Provide support for Azure Local

Client requests that our 9500 storage be supported for Azure Local
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Hardware Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Lock screen for PC with your finger print if it's remote

This idea is about PCs that are controlled remotely, the person that has the PC synced to their phone will have a timer on PC and will need the owners finger print or digital finger print to unlock by person or from anywhere. This is for privacy
20 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Alert on failed deletion in DOMADM

If I configure policies on a cluster with an administrative domain that also apply to *USRPRF objects, I can create an account on one system and it will appear on the others. However, if the account contains objects, for example, and they are not ...
24 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

long name CADMRE

The administrative domain allows you to replicate various types of objects and configurations across the different members of the cluster. Among these types, you can also specify environment variables, which often have names longer than 10 charact...
24 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Add support for Java 21 to IBM i

Java 21 is needed so we can use new features also on IBM i. It will enable IBM i community to run applications that requires java 21. Java 21 (IBM Semeru) is already available for other platforms.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / JAVA Submitted

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.