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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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Enhancement Nbr 1 for Adding Additional User Information to the BRMS Recovery Report - QP1ARCY

Adding Additional User Information to the BRMS Recovery Report is a great way to get customer or system specific information into the recovery reporthttps://helpsystemswiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IWT/pages/165642305/Adding+Additional+User+Infor...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

Allow use of full screen width by ,Dynamic scaling HTML5 enhancement to the Access for Web and Mobile Access for the 5250

It would be more user friendly if the iamobile 5250 emulator app dynamically used the full screen width on newer IPADS. Currently it only uses about 2/3 of the screen. Use Case: Our executives need to able to access our iseries quickly , without h...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Add UI presentation page for power consumption showing all or selected servers

Better overview if all systems power usage is presented (or selected group of servers) in one page instead of going to each system and show only htat system. Less time spent for admin to check each system power usage one at a time.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

ACS Schema Browser - Support viewing journal entries and managing journals on files

Bring back Journal viewing and editing functionality previously found in IBM i Navigator to the ACS Schemas Browser that was ported from IBM i Navigator to ACS. Additionally, add the ability to script the human readable data to excel or CSV, or as...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

DB Development Perspective allow subset on Edit

IBM Rational Developer for i (RDi) version 9.6.0.1 has a Database Development perspective that allows editing of the contents of a Db2 table (right-click on table->Data->Edit). This brings back an arbitrary subset of the rows in the table. T...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 9 Future consideration

Shortcut for iProject Remote Action - Compile

We are using iProjects and have to compile a single source with Remote Actions - Compile, but there's actually no shortcut for it.(We cant't use Project build (Alt+Shift+B) ). You have to right-click to open context-menu, then left-click "Remote A...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

When Automatic Resize is turned on for 5250 sessions with multiple tabs, make each tab selected resize the window as needed.

Automatic resize is turned on for a 5250 session with multiple tabs. The first tab displays a 27x132 screen and the window resizes. When the second tab is selected, the window does not resize if that is a 24x80 screen so there is lots of blank spa...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Simplify multilingual support by changing CRTDSPF and CRTPRTF to support new MSGCON parameter "Resolve MSGCON MsgID values at" *COMPILE (default) *RUNTIME (optional)

Multilingual support can be greatly simplified if IBM supports resolving MSGCON messages at *RUNTIME. Currently MSGCON messages are resolved at compile time only (not good). This is problematic because it locks-in compile time values to object whi...
11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Submitted

Bankable IBM i license transfers

When upgrading hardware, many customers want to transfer existing IBM i entitlements from their old servers. However, the migration process for all workloads can take some time - a 12-month migration project is not unusual. At the same time, there...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review