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).


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IBM i

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    ADD in QSYS2 TABLES a new table to know wich programms use an exported porcedure from à service program

    Hi, QSYS2 functions and tables allow you to know:- What procedures are exported by our service programs.- What programs use our service programs. But it is not possible to know which programs use which exported procedure. This is a pity because it...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    Add Column of Configured Maximum number of jobs on Active Prestart Jobs

    In the latest TRs, V7R4 TR11 in our case have been included some additional columns that also included the Peak in Use! It would be very usefull to also have an additional column with the configured Maximum number of jobs per PJ, so we could easil...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Functionality already exists

    Start Offline checkbox on RDi startup.

    Sometimes it happens the RDi after entering signon credentials hangs during startup for different reasons (e.g. display file source tab in update mode was left open when closing workspace) In many of such cases a problem can be resolved by setting...
    3 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Under review

    Provide Exit Point support for SSHD Daemon

    We would like to utilize the standard IBM exit point program interfaces QIBM_QZDA* to provide control for the SSHD (SSH Daemon) provided with OpenSSH 5733-SC1. This protocol should have the same support available as Telnet, ODBC and FTP protocols ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Under review

    Oauth authentification for email

    Hello, In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online I...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review

    Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

    With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

    RDI: Possibility to force an update of the image in Screen Designer

    When editing a DDS screen file in the Screen Designer we have the possibility to switch between a Design and a Source window. So far so good. Unfortunately it happens that when changes are made to the source and you switch back to the Design windo...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Lack of BRMS auditing

    BRMS does not log changes made to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a specific table or journal. Having BRMS log changes to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a dedicated table o...
    3 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    Enable the usage of non ephemeral/static ports when using ObjectConnect over TCP/IP

    Currently, IBMi ObjectConnect over TCP/IP uses TCP port 9841. Once the connection is established, it attempts to negotiate a data port connection within the ephemeral port range of 5000-65535. This configuration is not practical when a firewall ex...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Future consideration

    Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs

    Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs so it is easier to copy & paste information such as job names, output queue, etc. Candidate dialogs: Job properties, debug properties, etc.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

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