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

All ideas

Showing 4756

please add function "odd" and "even"

would be nice to have a function returning whether a number is odd (function odd) and whether a number is even (function even). I know it can be done with mod(field, 2) but for documentation purpose it is better to read odd(field) or even(field) i...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add Applied Date to PTF Group Currency Service

IBM i 7.6 included an enhancement to DSPPTFGRP command to show the date the PTF Group was applied. Please add this Applied Date to the IBM PTF Group Service.
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

CLI option to switch on/off HMC performance data collection

we need an CLI option to switch on/off/configure HMC performance data collection feature to integrate in system-automation (eg. Ansible).
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

ACS automatic temporary file cleanup, please add functionality

Add at least a command line option to instruct ACS to NOT leave temporary files in /tmp if the run was successful and the exit clean. Each process and application if successful should manage its temporary storage properly. We run ACS directly on t...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
8 months ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

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...
8 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
10 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Import/export 5250 emulator colors

Hello, I have downloaded a custom theme colors for 5250 emulator (https://draculatheme.com/acs). But when i want to import the file it doesn't work. Clicking on import button does nothing. Export button doesn't work either.
15 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Change of name and library of SQL package in a Embedded SQL program

Our programs are compiled on a central build server which is integrated in a CI/CD pipeline. Created objects will be saved and restored on different production systems. We have a ILE Cobol embedded SQL program which can also be used to access a re...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

Change french translation for "Add service entry point"

The french translation for "Add service entry point" is not correct. Actually the translation is "Supprimer le point d'entrée de service", that means "Delete service entry point". During training it's complicated to explain that to add a service e...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

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.