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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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AI-Powered Job Log Analyzer

A native AI assistant that watches job logs (QHST, QSYSOPR, etc.) and :- Summarizes errors in human-readable form Suggests fixes from IBM docs Flags recurring patterns or anomalies Helps users and improves system reliability. It’s not "mission-cri...
11 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

Make spoolfile searching case insensitive

When searching a spooled file, the information must be entered case sensitive. Instead of searching for escape, I have to search for Escape in order to find escape messages in job logs. Instead of searching for 'library list changed', I have to se...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Custom SQLSTATE/MESSAGE for SIGNAL statement

Currently it is possible with the SIGNAL statement to return a custom SQLSTATE and message. DECLARE COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000'; DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND SIGNAL SQLSTATE '75001' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Country no...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Modern Look for IBM Navigator for i Using IBM’s Carbon Design System

Updating the IBM Navigator for i interface by implementing the Carbon Design System (https://carbondesignsystem.com/)— IBM’s open-source design system built on the IBM Design Language. Carbon provides production-ready code, design tools, UX guidel...
4 days ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

RPG manual - %subst() start position and length in double bytes for graphic or UCS-2

The RPG manual needs a clarification for the %subst() build-in-function. For graphic or UCS-2 data the start position and length should be specified in double bytes. This is not documented.For the old SUBST operation it is only noted that the star...
4 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

IBM i AI Assistant (Like ChatGPT, But Specialized for IBM i)

An intelligent assistant (CLI + Web + 5250 integration) that allows system admins, developers, and operators to ask natural language questions and get actionable, accurate, context-aware responses specific to the IBM i ecosystem. Command Explanati...
10 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

QMGTOOLS Option to Compare/Order Cross Reference PTFs Before an OS Upgrade

In QMGTOOLS option 24, PTF menu, can IBM add an option to compare/order cross-reference PTFs when planning for an OS upgrade, like from 7.4 to 7.5?
23 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

ACS automatic temporary file cleanup, please add functionality

Add at least a command line option to instruct ACS to NOT leave temporary files in /tmp if the run was successful and the exit clean. Each process and application if successful should manage its temporary storage properly. We run ACS directly on t...
26 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Improve reorganize while active

the reorganize while active mechaniism is a very interesting mechanism and allows you to reorganize files under journal allowing you to clean up many deleted records without closing applications and services. However, the mechanism does not allow...
19 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration