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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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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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Improve ACS Run SQL Scripts formatter

You need to allow for more options when formatting SQL statements. 1. Move the qualifier of the JOIN clause to the same line as the JOIN clause. 2. Allow for introducing more space around commas, parentheses as is done for comparison operators lik...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Request for continuous printing of using PDT file of ACS

・ Print multiple spooled files in succession.・ The attributes such as page size, CPI, LPI of each spooled files are the same value.・ Use PDT. exampleExecute three consecutive spooled files of the page length is 27 rows.Use default PDT file「IBM 557...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

IBM i COBOL build in IFS file

RDi now support Git for COBOL source version control in utf-8 code in IFS. So we want the COBOL source file in IFS to compile using CRTBNDCBL command directory. But we have to convert the source from utf-8 to EBCDIC in IFS. So CRTBNDCBL command ca...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 5 Delivered

eerrpt A7004761

Currently when an IBM Power system running aix has its HAK (ie hardware access key) expire each and every lpar on the system logs: BFE4C025 1201160618 P H sysplanar0 UNDETERMINED ERRORBFE4C025 1201075618 P H sysplanar0 UNDETERMINED ERRORBFE4C025 1...
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

LDAP Security with gidNumber 0

Hi IBM,The AIX implementation of LDAP allows an LDAP administrator to set a gidNumber of zero to an LDAP group, which overrides the AIX /etc/group file. Therefore, an LDAP user in a group with ID of 0, is given system group privileges on AIX. LDAP...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Remove "Access for Web" topic from 7.5 Docs site to make it clear that it is not supported in 7.5.

To prevent customers' confusion, I would like IBM to remove "Access for Web" section from IBM i 7.5 Docs site. Access for Web is not supported on IBM i 7.5. -> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/planning-upgrade-ibm-i-75-software But "Access fo...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Need ability to manage which users are stopped when an SEP breakpoint is reached

Some debugging we really need to call through web front end to test with how information is set up. This means we use the same userid all people in the environment are assigned by the connector. Since debug stops as soon as the program is called. ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Delivered

Name the SQL programing language PL/SQL on IBM i

When coding stored procedures, UDTF and compound statement we have a nice language without a name. To be consistent across the industry it seems like the name PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is used for other databases - inc...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

RDi integrated shell

Introduce an integrated shell, like VSCode has, to make it easy/simple to ssh into PASE on IBM i. Use Case: As more developers adopt RPG in the IFS they will also most likely be adopting alternative build strategies that require "make" and other u...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

CLI Import for Certificates

System: Supported pSeries HMC Code VersionsActor: AIX/HMC SAs Description: HMC code by default uses self-signed certificates. In this day and age of exploiting weaknesses, businesses are blocking self-signed certs via the browser. Yet certificates...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered