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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    Enable running "normal" CL commands in Run SQL Scripts, like VRYCFG.

    With every new release of IBM i, every new Technology Refresh, the number of Db2 for i Services is growing and enhanced. As a result of this the work of system administrators is moving from using 5250 emulation to running SQL statements in RSS. A...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

    Create a resource role in Cloud Management Console which only shows assigned lpar resources.lpar and not the managed system

    Create a resource role in Cloud Management Console which only shows assigned lpar resources instead of the capacity and usage of the entire frame.
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Add *COMPRESSDBG to parameter DBGVIEW for ILE C/C++ compiler

    On I5/OS V5R4M0 IBM has added the options *NOCOMPRESSDBG / *COMPRESSDBG to the ILE Cobol Compiler commands CRTBNDCBL and CRTCBLMOD. These options are also needed for the ILE C/C++ compiler to reduce the size of the *MODULE object and later also in...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 1 Future consideration

    Make default storage system choice as were VM has its bootdisk

    When deploying a VM it gets it disk from lest say FS200:1 then when / if I add more disks later on the UI default to the highest number or else BUT it does not default to the same disk system as were the boot disk reside. I would like FS UI to "of...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    DBCS Support for WSCST(*PDF)

    When IBM came out woth PDF transform capabilities for Spool Files using Transfor Services 'WSCST(*PDF)' we were very excited. Our hope was that it would alleviate our current transform solution which takes a lot of development cycles to maintain. ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Future consideration

    Add ability to run custom SQL statements in New Navigator for i

    A lot of admins have written their own custom SQL querys to handle various things on the systems. since the new Navigator for i is SQL based, could we have the ability to run those queries from the new navigator?
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

    VIOS upgrade using Enhanced+ HMC GUI

    Enhanced+ HMC GUI has given a new option to create VSCSI drives without a need of logging into VIOS. If we can bring an option to upgrade/Update the VIOS without logging in using the HMC GUI it will reduce the workload of Customer and no separate ...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC support for Diskimage-builder

    The customer is currently using Diskimage-builder for to prepare and build all SOE's (including other platforms such as Intel). Customer is seeking official support for this tool to package SOE images for PowerVC to use.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    More flexible list

    When defining a Web Service using IWS it's only possible to limit the size of the returned list by selecting a return parameter that is placed as a first level parameter field when using the "Count" feature or by using the hard coded feature "Dete...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

    Include DDM File based-on object information in the QDBRTVFD API

    Today, when using QDBRTVFD to retrieve information about a DDMF (DDM File) the based on information returns only the Record Format name, not the file or library (or member) over which the DDMF is pointing. This occurs even when the DDMF is pointin...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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