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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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ILE RPG New Procedure Wizard Preferences

New procedure wizard creates creates its declarations in all upper case. It would be nice if the ILE RPG preferences page had an option to control the case to be used in the same way that Control Blocks do. Use Case: Currently the wizard creates t...
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

AJS - immediately transfer calendar changes to job planning entries

Licence Program 5770-JS1:If a calendar (run, holiday and fiscal) is changed, the properties of the affected jobs should be automatically and immediately adjusted accordingly. Use Case: Several jobs are controlled via the calendar RUN and the holid...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

Gracefully Shutdown of Prestarted Jobs

When there is Program monitored error within an prestarted Job we Need a way to end the Job gracefully. Therefore we want to be able to send a Program defined Response while inhibiting other requests from entering the prestarted Job.Which means th...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

mksysb backup restore with Tape Device

SAS and FC attached tape do not support boot because it needs atape device driver and atape device driver does not support boot.SCSI attached tape does support boot because SCSI attached tape support AIX native tape device driver , so it is the on...
about 5 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

Globalization/Secondary languages considerations when upgrading the IBM i

Good day. Many IBM i systems use secondary languages that need to be taken into consideration when planning to upgrade the IBM i OS. If your machine uses secondary languages, the LPPs languages must also be upgraded to the newer version, the langu...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

Allow conversion parameters for ACS "Printer Output" -> "Use PDF format if available"

In Japanese environment (primary language 2962), checking "Use PDF format if available" in "Printer Output" generates garbage.By specifying appropriate parameters for conversion by TS1, it is possible to generate readable PDF.For example, OVRPRTF ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Update chhwres to include logical_port_id parameter when creating vNC backing devices

When using the chhwres command to create an SR-IOV logical port on an ethernet adapter in shared mode the logical_port_id parameter can be specified. However, when using chhwres to add a vNIC backing device this option is not available. This cause...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

RPG Refactor Redundant Code

It would be awesome to highlight a piece of code, find all instances of the highlighted pattern, and refactor all instances to a subroutine or a procedure. For example, the code below. I found three instances of this code in the same program. This...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

ACS: Improve user experience by using better button texts

When the user get's an error message that needs to be confirmed try to provide the dialog in such a way that the user does not need to read the error message but can infer the action from the button text. See attachments.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists