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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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FTP Client Audit

Dear Sirs, we would like to better audit the FTPs and particularly the Client-Side.For example: a UserA may open a FTP connection and log onto the remote server under the credentials of UserB. This does not appear in the SK entries of the audit jo...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 6 Not under consideration

Down loading CUM and Group PTF .bin files from IBM Fix Central site

Create the ability to independent and configurable FTP keepalives for data and control sessions Use Case: TS006868699
about 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under consideration

Have a straight access (button) to system debugger on the 5250 emulator.,

Faster than opening SQL and then Execution and then system debugger...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Under review

Ping IPs before deployment

During a deployment of a new VM, PowerVC checks if the IP is already used by looking into its database. If an IP is free according to the DB, but is already in use, PowerVC will deploy this IP. These leads to IP address conflicts. This may happen,...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

IBM i ILE/C++ compiler to fully support C++11

Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne needs to uplift to a newer version of ICU. We currently support 52-1 and there are known security vulnerabilities to which we are exposing our mutual customers (EnterpriseOne and IBM i). We would like to support the latest...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration

Live Partition update with spectrum scale filesystem

Hello, today it is not possible with AX 7.2 to install aix patches online if you have spectrum scale (gpfs) filesystems. AIX and spectrum scale are IBM Standard products, so it is not understandable for customer .
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

SQL update with a From clause

Having worked a little with MS SQL Server I've found their SQL Update with a from clause Very convenientlikeupdate fileAset fileA.field1 = fileB.field1from fileA inner join fileB on fileB.key = fileA.key IMHO this syntax is much clearer then the c...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Provide easy to use "IBM i internal disk performance modeling tool" which supports latest technologies (SSD, NVMe)

Simple and easy to use IBM i internal disk performance modeling tool which supports latest internal storage technologies (SSD/NVMe) is desirable to configure, propose, buy new IBM i server. IBM supplied storage modeling tools do not fulfill the re...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 2 Not under consideration

Add CDRECORD & DVDRECORd to yum repositories

Add the open source cdrkit (or cdrecord & dvdrecord) utilities to the IBM i yum repositories so that CD & DVD images can be built entirely on the i. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkithttps://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/ Use Case: T...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

acs 5250 session border customizable like ACS Run SQL Scripts Border

Starting with running 5250 emulations session I select> Communications> Configure> Preferences. On this panel there is a radio button to >>SHOW BORDER. When I select that I can display a border around the 5250 window, but I cannot f...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration