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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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MFA sur le pop-up de connexion apache

Nous souhaiterions activer le facteur d’authentification supplémentaire (MFA) en frontal, au niveau de la connexion pop-up Apache.
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

D-IPL from VTL in IBM Cloud for IBMi VSI builds

As far as I can see, there is no straightforward process to install IBMi VSIs in Cloud. There is a long winded process of setting up an NFS, adding image catalog, populating the catalog, sharing it, etc. If I have a system save of the on-prem imag...
9 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

Allow conditional service break point in iASP environment

Conditional service breakpoints do not work in an iASP environment. The 'WHEN' clause on a service breakpoint does not work in an iASP envrionment. We have thousands of jobs and threads servicing tens of thousands of customer connections to our sy...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Submitted

IBM ACS (Access Client Solutions) - Retain Settings in Visual Explain

In ACS 1.1.9.7, you can zoom in on the right hand pane of Visual Explain. Wen you close the window, it does NOT retain your zoom settings. Please enable this to to retain your zoom settings. Also, it is not intuitive that you even can zoom, maybe ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Add FIPS support to JDK 17 and beyond.

FIPS is a requirement for criminal justice processing. It was previously supported in JDK 8 (and maybe later) on the iSeries. It is not supported in JDK 17. To be in compliance with federal Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) standards, FI...
9 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Submitted

Enable image catalogue entry to use a specific size or the same size as the first volume.

When a save runs to a virtual tape device and the last volume is used MSG:CPA6798 is issued. The message can be replied to with *GEN which will create a new volume with the following attributes.  ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG (same as previous volume)  FROM...
9 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Much like WatsonX code assistant for Z, we are looking for similar capabilities for the I to modernized and even convert RPG code to other languages.

To speed development, and help modernize the look and feel of our software to better serve our customers.
10 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Graphic tool or sql service to know the percentage of use of the tapes.

Currently there is no tool or any sql service that helps to know the percentage of use/free is a tape device. For now there is only this old method to calculate it. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-much-data-and-how-much-free-space-available-...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Submitted

Make Postgres 15.6 available in OpenSourceManagement

the latest supported version of Postgres on IBMi is 12.17-1 but Postgres 12 is getting EOL on Nov 2024 when will Postgres 15.6 become available in OpenSourceManagement
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Enable Websphere http-server to serve bearer authorization with wizard assist

Add an wizard to configure the authorization to use bearer instead of basic
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted