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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    Allow checking multiple defined conditions with one /IF compiler directive

    Checking multiple defined conditions is cumbersome - if a part of code should only be combined when two conditions are defined, one has to use nested /IF directives: /IF DEFINED(condition1) /IF DEFINED(condition2) // code only compiled when condit...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Windows 11 Pro ARM support with 64bit ODBC drivers so PowerBI Desktop and Excel can pull data from IBM I DB2. For all Mac M(x) ARM systems. Support for modern tooling

    Power BI does not run on Mac Arm, but does in Parallels with Windows ARM. IBM 32bit drivers will install in Windows ARM, but 64bit will not. All modern tooling is requiring 64bit support. This kills MAC as a dev platform for IBM I with many modern...
    5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Change references of "discovery" (no such process) to "discover"

    VMRDR has a "discover" and "verify" process but the word "discovery" is used too often, causes confusion, and should be changed to "discover". Here are two examples: 1. This vm's STATE should be "DISCOVER_FAILED" instead of "DISCOVERY_FAILED". The...
    5 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Have a P05 tier level system in every new initial Power system rollout.

    I understand wanting to get high end systems as they might be the first people to need the new horsepower of a new Power system. However these same people may not be allowed to go to a new Power System until that model has been certified by their ...
    5 months ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted

    within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNav

    within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. As an example, Job name contains QBAT, QINT I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNavigator
    5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Provide a command-line utility to modify AIX's ldap.cfg file

    If there were a command-line utility (similar to the 'chsec' command) that could be used to modify ldap.cfg, this will: 1) prevent syntax errors by checking the modifications you are attempting to make 2) allow for modification of the file by a cu...
    5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Enhance Dcl-Enum to be multilevel as Dlc-Ds

    Dcl-Enum is very usefull but could be even better if provides multi-level definition as Dcl-Ds: Dcl-Enum Errors qualified; Dcl-Enum Severity; Info 'I'; Halt 'H'; End-Enum; Dcl-Enum Actions; Abort 'A'; Exit 'E'; End-Enum; End-Enum; Select RetCode; ...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    New Customer Portal for Increased Support Experience

    I would like to propose a new main support portal for clients. In the portal you would be able to have a interface in which you could input your customer ID number or numbers depending on if you manage multiple IBM Power systems across different o...
    5 months ago in Power Systems Design 2 Submitted

    I'm using the audit data mart in web Navigator, please add an option to schedule the "refresh" job when the journal receiver gets changed.

    currently we can have an advanced job scheduler job added to run at a specific time. This is great but allows for the possibility of missing journal receiver entries. I would like to add the option to run the audit journal data mart process when t...
    6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    MFA sur le pop-up de connexion apache

    Nous souhaiterions activer le facteur d’authentification supplémentaire (MFA) en frontal, au niveau de la connexion pop-up Apache.
    6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

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