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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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Need a lightweight Terminal Emulator

While using the Remote System Explore of RDp, it would be really handy to be able to open up an emulator session to the i.This doesn't need to be a full featured version of i Access. But a lightweight version would be really handy Use Case: While ...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Enhance ACS Column details for Developer productivity

In ACS -> Run SQL Scripts -> SQL Result Window -> View -> Details, ACS presents a window of column details. Please enhance this window in the following ways: 1) on column details, make field list panel expandable, allow drag down to vi...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Live Update - Add preview check to geninstall -pk for processes running in /dev/kmem

Whilst /dev/kmem is listed within the "Limitations" of Live Update it would be helpful to be alerted to such processes during the preview phase of geninstall -pk.
over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Command to import/export/edit an LPAR's 'Description' field now available in the Enhanced UI

It would be great to be able to import from / export to CSV the data in the LPAR's 'description' field that is now available in the Enhanced UI.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Rational Developer for I code generation

We are on OS 7.1 using Rational 9.1.1 - When I convert code to free form it is still creating the FREE END-FREE statements even though they are no longer required on OS 7.1 - Can the generation if Free End-Free statements be made optional? Use Cas...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Required Samba V4.x support with Microsoft ADS (Active Directory Server) with Kerberos authentication

Samba V4.x running on AIX OS - need Microsoft ADS (Active Directory Server) support with Kerberos authentication. Active Directory support for Samba used to be there in older versions of the product such as V3.x - however with the newer V4.x versi...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Line outline doesn't show numbered indicators

When we have an RPGLE source open with the live outline open there is no reference of the numbered indicator.Exemple *IN(10) and *IN12 are used in the program. Only *IN12 appear in the outline. Even with the search, I can't find the *IN(10). The i...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Add a single VIEW to the DB2 for i Catalogue that shows all data dependencies between PFs, Tables, Logicals, Indexes and Views

No view, or combination of views, in the DB2 for i Catalogue that I am aware of can provide me with database relationships similar to what DSPDBR shows. The closest "catalogue type file" that I know of that has that is QSYS/QADBFDEP but that's not...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Administration Runtime Expert for i

This is RFE is for IBM i product: 5733ARE - IBM Administration Runtime Expert for i (Application Runtime Expert) Under 'System Environment' selection- component User IDs I would like to request that we have the ability to build a template to revie...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

HMC and Firmware Upgrade Media

Request the ability to order HMC base and upgrade media on USB sticks with tags attached identifying them. Request the ability to order firmware updates on USB sticks with tags attached identifying them.
over 7 years ago in PowerVM 2 Delivered