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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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Ctrl / behavior enhancement request

I would like to request an enhancement to RDi for the Ctrl / and Ctrl \ key functions so that they either perform the "new" way which is consistent with Eclispe, or, the keystrokes perform as they did prior to the installation of Version: 9.6.0.12...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

IWS Mulit-row update and post Web service

Possibility of multi-row put or post via web service with JSON data. Use Case: Sending (PUT or POST) multi-row JSON data to a web service only handels the first record?No error Ex. (two records): { "CUSTOMER_NAME" : "Sally Bronze", "CUSTOMER_ADDR...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 9 Future consideration

AIA Thailand got the problem Thai language on Data transfer on IBM iAccess Client solution.

Got the problem about the data transfer for Thai language - CCSID which cannot support non-Thai CCSID in database file so I ask you to offer the selection CCSID in IBM iAccess Client Solution. Refer to case no. TS014645564 and many customers in Th...
11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

Improvement of existing CCSID 1388 to cater latest China National Standard 13080-2022

Recently China Information technology authority announced the latest national Chinese coded character set GB18030-2022 and make it mandatory for all the banking industry. There are a lot of new rarely use character set added into this GB18030-2022...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Future consideration

Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only

Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only. Use Case: Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only.
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

About the character code on ? of ACS version 1.1.8.4 or later

Due to the RFE 132374 "ACS --Enable to input ¥ view" Yen "and" Backslash "at the same time", the character code of ¥ on ACS (version 1.1.8.4 or later) is now x'B2'. Clients often use ¥ at the beginning of commands, so the commands that include ¥ c...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

As an administrator, I need to be able to take control of an interactive 5250 session.

We have situations where users either get interrupted, walk away from their screens, go to lunch or home. When this happens, other users are affected and their jobs either hang or get aborted with an error message due to a record lock or file with...
5 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Functionality already exists

improve performances of DB2 sequences

I like the principle of DB2 sequences, but there is a big problem with the implementation of it on IBM i. Indeed, the command CREATE SEQUENCE does not generate a real DB2 object, It generates an IBM i object of DATA AREA type. However, DATA AREAs ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

Add round() function to ILE C/C++ (math.h)

We need to use the round() function in ILE C/C++. Currently it is not included in the header math.h. The function is from the C99 standard. z/OS has also support for it: https://www.ibm.com/docs/pl/zos/2.4.0?topic=functions-round-roundf-roundl-rou...
11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

Change default page for the New Navigator GUI

When logging into the New Navigator gui @ https://yoursystem.com:2003/Navigator/mainframe, it defaults to https://yoursystem.com:2003/Navigator/mainframe/dashboard-card. The primary page being used is the 'mainframe' page. I have to go up and maua...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration