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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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IBM i

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NetServer support of SMB2 not support Change Notify

After reading the document https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1021348 and that you would like to be implemented support for CHANGE_NOTIFY in the Iseries Use Case: Problems described in the document (https://www-01.ibm.com/support/...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Not under consideration

Add ability for Comment/Uncomment to work with SQL Scripts

When editing SQL scripts it would be super if Comment (ctrl+/) & Uncomment (cntl+\) worked as it does with RPG. Use Case: Given any block of code like: create or replace view V1asselect T1.C1 ,T1.C2 ,T2.C3from T1 left outer join T2 on T1.C1=T2...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Fix your ideas portal to allow a daily digest or just to introduce each new idea.

I'm already overwhelmed by hundreds of emails per day. I don't need to get an email for every idea and comment for that idea that's added within the categories I'm interested in. Why does this new approach have to completely ignore what worked in ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Other 4 Not under consideration

single sign on with CCSID5026

My request is that GSS (Generic Security Services) APIs can support CCSID 290 and 5026 in order to enable single sign on in our IBM i environment. IBM i is our life insurance policy administration system and QCCSID cannot be changed to 5035, which...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

Make managing ciphers in QSSLCSL easier using 2-digit cipher codes and use these codes everywhere

It would be easier to manage ciphers in the system value using the 2-digit codes simply because ciphers also have to be managed in SST (SSLCONFIG/TLSCONFIG) where the 2-digit code in required when adding/removing ciphers to the eligible list. Give...
9 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

Optionally Show Hover Text in Fixed-Width Font

RPG is coded in a fixed-width font, including comments. This allows multiple lines to have data line up in the same place, including in comments. However, when those comments are shown in hover text (e.g. for prototypes) they're shown in variable-...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Generate Case Sensitive WSDL Service Names

When dealing with some 3rd Party applications they sometimes have requirements with having the service name in camel case. Currently when generating program info for the PCML you can specify *DCLCASE but that only applies to field names. Would it ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Prevent GO PTF option 8 from unintentionally IPL'ing the system when ptf's

I would like the ability, for setting a system value (WRKSYSVAL), to change the default parameter on menu PTF option 8,” Install program temporary fix package” from "Y' to “N”. Many times, I just wish to install a cume or group ptf during the week...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

Outline not showing modified marker on fields using assignment operators

Fields modified using (at least) += are not showing in the outline as being modified "line# (m)". Use Case: I have Live outline on. See sample images for references.
about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Is a defect

Allow optional input parameters in IWS / Websphere Service

Allowing optional input parameters on IWS / Websphere services would prevent requiring consumers of the APIs to pass in variables that are not being used. This would make the request look better and reduce bandwidth.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Functionality already exists