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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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add the Julia language to the IBM i ecosystem

I discovered recently a project of portage of Julia language on Power platform. I would be very interested by a portage specific to the IBM i machines, with a DB2 for i connector optimized for this environment. The presence of this modern and high...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

I want better IBM i support for PowerSC

About the productI would like PowerSC to not require periodic restarts.If periodic restarts are required, please provide examples of cron settings in the documentation. About the introduction documentWe would like the "Configuring IBM PowerSC MFA ...
almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 4 Planned for future release

IBM I ACCESS FOR WEB ENHANCEMENT

In IBM i Access for WebWhen using query provide option to returncolumn heading/labels instead of just field names.Under Database/Run SQL or My Requests. Use Case: When trying to get away from old as400 query users could use IBM i access for web to...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

STRNETINS setup validation.

NOTE: See Case TS002823522 (Since the PMR ID field above has not yet been enabled for cases!) When using network based image catalog for upgrades there are key components that must be in play for this thing to work. Once the network is correct (e....
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 5 Not under consideration

Support mapping MFA users to either local groups or LDAP/AD groups

Currently, each user must be added to PowerSC MFA. From a corp security perspective it would be more consistent and simpler to point to group membership to assign profiles and permissions. So instead of adding the 30 indivisual members of group XY...
over 2 years ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

PDU cables shorter than 4.3M for in-rack connections

The PDU cable (ex. #6654) is currently only length of 4.3M, although PDU are connected any components in a rack in most cases.The PDU cable is too long and become a big cable roll under the rack. And these big cable rolls are as many as PDUs.Pleas...
11 months ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted

5733-ICC Incomplete uploads to COS

"Incomplete uploads" to COS should also be handled with ICC. Use Case: At the moment, such aborted uploads can only be deleted via APIs, which is not user-friendly.
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Future consideration

Problem with special characters in IBM i Access Client Solution ACS run sql script

I found a problem with the content assist function in the Run Sql Script module of the ACS product.If the library or object has one of the following characters ($ £ §), auto-completion will not work.Problem 1) No message is output with the $ chara...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Provide for passing of variables to CL commands.

There is a huge need to be able to pass variables to CL commands in a SQL script in RSS. This is the statements in error: CL:DPOBJLIB/FLT855KTST ORDER(oprutllib.MacPac_SO); CL:DPOBJLIB/FLT855KTST ORDER( 659239 ); -- generate a spreadsheeet I am un...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

When creating printer session in ACS have iASP as an option.

Having the iASP in the writer job when session is started via ACS allows reports with overlays in iASP to print using the overlay.
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration