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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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Shortcut keys on ACS Data Transfer dialog

In the current ACS Data Transfer function, when closing the main window after completing a transfer, the Inquiry Message dialog "Do you want to save this transfer request?" does not provide shortcut keys for the Yes/No buttons. Use Case: 1. Open t...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Prevent unknown RPGLE language features from breaking validation/outline view

Working for a financial company, users are extremely limited in their ability to download and install updated versions of developer tools. It can be years between updates to Rational Developer, as getting a new version requires a lengthy verificat...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Delivered

Method to check uptime on lpar:s

We want to find out if a method to check uptime on many (100:s) of SLES partitions could be implemented in the HMC. Basically performing the #uptime command and cathing the output for all of them. An alternative is of course to script it and doing...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Add *EVENTF to CRTCMD

Creating a command from source does not currently produce results in the Error List view in RDi. This is because CRTCMD lacks support for the *EVENTF option. Add support for the *EVENTF option to CRTCMD so error output will display in RDi. At the ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

NAT Traversal Support for IKEv2

IBM AIX does not support NAT Traversal support for IKE V2/Transport Mode. This capability is required to support the LPM environment in french customers.
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Enable modification of an existing storage template to add some more I/O groups

Allow adding more I/O group in the existing storage template
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Add parameter to RSTOBJ command

In the RSTOBJ command parameters it would be great to let you filter by attribute as well (FILEATR), in case you select *FILE would also specify the type (*PF, *LF, *PRTF, *DSPF, etc.) OBJTYPE > *FILE FILEATR > *PF Use Case: We usually have ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Delivered

Add 7.4 support to the list of PTF's

Add 7.4 to document N1021943 athttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/access-ptf-cover-letters Use Case: service and support
about 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Delivered

Error message in editor stays, even when the error is solved

When an error in the source code is solved, the error message should be removed from the editor. Use Case: In many cases, the error message in the source code editor does not disappear, even if the error is solved. For example, when using content ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

V8R8.7.0 new interface needs long LPAR list

The new HMC interface (as opposed to classic) is mandatory in HMC version V8R8.7.0. In this new interface LPARs are displayed as icons by default but this can be switched to list view. The list view defaults to 20 LPARs. Our enterprise systems con...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered