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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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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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Add command SQL service

The idea is based on the creation of a command-related SQL service. This service must return some information about the commands such as the program, source, and various parameters. In addition, it would be very important that it returns the defau...
13 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Navigator add own monitor

In Navigator there is the ability to define monitors that are managed directly by the system and are based on certain metrics such as free disk space capacity, CPU usage, etc. In addition, there is the ability to monitor message queues, defining m...
13 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Moving load source concurrently

The idea is based on the ability to be able to copy (and thus move) the load source from one disk to another without the need for downtime. The operating system is already capable of initializing and moving data from one disk to another without do...
13 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Provide option to set the Script pain font and output panel font separately in IBM ACS RUNSQL Scripts

I often need to set the output pain (resultset data) font to larger than that of the actual SQL statement that produced it. Today, they both get the same font. This request is to provide 2 font settings so that they do not need to be the same size...
13 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Please add the Java Modernization Tools for RPG and COBOL into RDI 9.8 like RDI 9.6 with the tools option.

IBM Rational Developer for i RPG and COBOL + Modernization Tools, Java Edition V9.6 Core Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly (CJ2JVML) comes with many tools for exposing IBM i backend business logic to web based application written in Java for th...
15 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

Allow library for Prompt Override and Choice programs to be changed to close security hole.

Products and utilities that can be restored into any library need to be adjusted at 'install' time to properly library qualify pieces of the package. UPD[SRV]PGM SRVPGMLIB( ) and CHGCMD PGM( ) VLDCK( ) HLPPNLGRP( ) PMTOVRPGM( ) are helpful for thi...
16 days ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Submitted

Enable NFSv4 for Remote image catalogue setup and install for PTFs as image catalogue method of doing remote install through NFS supports only NFSv3.

Enabling NFSv4 for Remote image catalogue setup and install for PTFs as image catalogue method of doing remote install through NFS supports only NFSv3.As per the IBM support team, the remote install of any ptfs or images through image catalogue ov...
17 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

CPE3025 should tell what exactly is missing.

The message CPE3025 occurs when a file or folder in the IFS cannot be found. But you have to guess which one, as CPE3025 doesn't tell. Edit: it is obviously me sending the message; sorry. But nevertheless, a common data structure for CPExxxx-messa...
17 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
17 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

IBM Navigator for i - Function Usage ID to allow only management of EIM users

Our helpdesk staff manage the creation and deletion of users and password resets, however I can't grant them access to Navigator for i to manage EIM user entries for SSO as it gives them far too much access. Please provide a Function Usage ID whic...
17 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted