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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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.

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    Support wide SQL sources on **FREE

    Support more than 80 columns for embedded SQL in RPG with **FREE Use Case: Support of the wider sources allows more easily to write complexer SQL statements instead of splitting over many lines.
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Not under consideration

    Modern browser for AIX which supports at least TLS 1.2

    The latest available Firefox for AIX is version 3.6.25 which enables SSL 3 by default, and TLS 1.0 Customers have requested a modern browser on AIXthat can, among other things:- Use TLS1.2- View IBM's Fix Central- View IBM's Knowledge Center IBM s...
    about 8 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

    Port Linux package SSSD into AIX for Active Directory authentication

    There are costed product options that allow user and group management from Active Directory and authentication. SSSD has been ported to different flavors of Linux and to have it working on AIX would provide simplicity and reduced cost.
    over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    IBM should offer inexpensive no-production-use IBM i licenses for discontinued hardware

    The title says it all: for a nominal* charge, IBM should offer limited (processor, user count, use case) licenses to run the core IBM i OS and related no-charge licensed products on Power Systems hardware that is no longer sold and/or supported, a...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 6 Not under consideration

    Outline View: Filtering

    I think it would be extremely helpful to be able to filter the items in the Outline, similar to the filtering in the Preferences dialog. Use Case: Especially when there are multiple copybooks or very large programs, the list can be extremely long ...
    over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

    DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

    We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to download *IPDS spool files using ACS

    Would like the ability to view / download spool files with *IPDS data stream using Access Client Solutions. This function was supported in the old IBM i Access for Windows. Use Case: Distribute spool files to customers
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Allow use of other ACS Tabbed 5250 sessions whilst another is Authenticating

    Allow use of other ACS Tabbed 5250 sessions whilst another is Authenticating. See attached screenshot for example. At the moment, if in tabbed mode, ALL tabbed sessions are locked and can not be used whilst the "Signon in Progress" dialogue displa...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    bring NATIVE graphical user interface to ibmi

    bring NATIVE graphical user interface to ibmi, session based, fully supported natively by IBM, fully integrated with the operating system and workflow, as a normal display file for a RPG would be. Some solution exists indeed in the aftermarket usi...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

    Support of SAP HANA multi-target scale-up configuration (A->B & A->C) via Smart Assist in PowerHA

    Multi-target HSR (Hana System Replication) A->B & A->C will likely be the most desired configuration for the customers who want both HA and DR for HANA. We are implementing it at the customer now, but since there is no smart assist, ther...
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

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