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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    See variable bigger than 4,095 characters in RDI Debug

    Green Screen debug allow you to do this: EVAL MyBigXML:C 65000. And you see the complete value of the field! Inside RDI, you can add a monitor varaible with "MyBigXML:C 65000" and it cuts off at 4,095 characters. Oh well, just use command line STR...
    over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

    Add "in use" for stream files in iACS

    In IBM Navigator for i you can go into Integrated File Systems and see who has a lock on a stream file.I want that capability added in IBM i Access Client Solutions. Use Case: Trying to perform maintenance on a stream file but I cannot see who has...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

    Monitor > System monitor on more nodes

    In the old Client Access it was possible to have more nodes on the same system monitor grafic. (see the attach). in the new Navigator for I, we only can see grafics for single node in different windows.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

    LPM VMs to original system after Evacuation or Remote Restart

    If a host is evacuated for systems maintenance or VMs are restarted using Remote Restart after a system outage PowerVC does not save the original source system to able to LPM the VMs back to the source after the maintenance.
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

    API or DB2 SQL Service to return the OVRDBF information for a JOB

    It would be nice to have either a DB2 SQL Service or API that would return the information from DSPOVR. Currently the only way I know to do this at least for the current job is to do a DSPOVR *PRINT or DSPJOB *PRINT and read through the spool file...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

    Trigger administration

    This set up rights on the ADDPFRTG command identical to those set up on the SQL CREATE TRIGGER statements
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

    Retype (migrate) volume between mirrored storage templates (different pools, same storage provider)

    Problem: If you have a mirrored volume in PowerVC (Storage-Template-A) and you have to retype (migrate) this to also mirroed Storage-Template-B for any reason, this didn't work/isn't supported. Most customers, which do have a SVC, are using mir...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

    Copy User Profile - No Option to NOT copy TOTP

    Problem Statement When copying user profiles to other systems through Navigator for i, there is no option to NOT copy their TOTP. To reduce TOTP re-use and better align with best security practices; this operation should be disabled by default and...
    8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

    support for mac in rdp

    i want to be able to run the RDP on my mac native. Use Case: today the rdp has to be run in a virtual machine running windows in my mac. this prevents me from going over to mac.
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 11 Delivered

    Longer SQL statement parameter in cldownload plugin or making it external

    The idea of having a longer SQL statement parameter in the cldownload plugin or making it external revolves around enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of SQL queries used within the plugin. Here’s an expanded description of what this could en...
    10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

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