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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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Support Modern Authentication with Office365 - Configuration help

Hi Team, Please guide/assist with potential mail server setting on their cloud iSeries to accommodate potential O365 authorization settings changes? Use Case: This is the situation and info i have received:This enhancement is needed because most o...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

Text highlighting in ACS 5250 Emulator

It would be great to have an option in ACS to highlight a specific string if it appears anywhere on the screen. Something like CTRL-F (find) feature in Chrome. Use Case: When scrolling through many screens of data in the ACS 5250 emulator and look...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

EBCIDIC to ASCII spool transformation progress

IBM case TS013592411 Currently there is no way to know the progress of a spool transformation from EBCIDIC to ASCII. When a huge spool file is send thru the IBM i outq, there is no way to know how many pages of the spool is transformed from EBCIDI...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

5733-ICC time estimation for file transfer

Tools like Curl give an estimate of how long a transfer will take. This would also be useful with ICC. Use Case: This would make it easier to estimate the duration of a transfer or to identify possible connection problems in advance.
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Future consideration

Validating to a RADIUS server for multi factor authentication MFA

IBM needs to modernize it's remote access services to include multi factor authentication.It currently only allows authentication for dial up modems and needs to allow authentication through a RADIUS server for non dial up connections through the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Support *ALLUSR and *ALL for QUSLMBR API

The QUSLMBR API supports a full library name, *LIBL or *CURLIB. However there is a need to "find members" on the system so *ALLUSR and even *ALL should be supported to enable that capability. Use Case: Using QUSLMBR I want to locate on the system ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Add CIS (benchmark) compliance profile for IBMi

In version 2.0.0.2 of PowerSC there is a "IBMi best practices" profile only for IBMi agents. For our VIOS/AIX agents we use the CIS profile and we want to be able to use a CIS profile for IBMi agents also.Provide a CIS compliance profile, please.
over 2 years ago in PowerSC 3 Future consideration

Provide Split Screen Capability for all iSeries file types in RDi

We currently do a large amount of SQL development on the iSeries via RDi 9.0 and split screen capability is not available for SQL source members defined with a file type of SQL (non-standard). There is no good standard file type that is available ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

DUMP opcode option to dump calling procedure

DUMP opcode currently only dumps the values for the process that issues the DUMP. If a service program is used to centralize error-handling, there is no way for the DUMP to be included in diagnostics because the dump will only include service prog...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Add UI presentation page for power consumption showing all or selected servers

Better overview if all systems power usage is presented (or selected group of servers) in one page instead of going to each system and show only htat system. Less time spent for admin to check each system power usage one at a time.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted