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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    Change of name and library of SQL package in a Embedded SQL program

    Our programs are compiled on a central build server which is integrated in a CI/CD pipeline. Created objects will be saved and restored on different production systems. We have a ILE Cobol embedded SQL program which can also be used to access a re...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

    Selection the length of server power cables

    The #6577 is described on the below manual that manufacturing select length when a rack is configured in the factory.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=pr-supported-power-cordsCustomer said that in spite of the connection for servers to PDU...
    about 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 0 Functionality already exists

    Add the attributes like the owner and creation date on the netserver ffile share so we know who created it and when it was created like IFS objects showing the owner and creation date

    Like IFS and object attributes, it is useful because we need to know who created and when it was created. Also, whatever the user creates the netserver file share, the user picks a name that might be acceptable or not acceptable. Also, it can be a...
    8 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Functionality already exists

    Enhance the Query Supervisor for temporary storage thresholds to also apply to the *DATABASE temporary storage buckets

    We have had several rogue queries that used very large amounts of temporary storage. We have query supervisor thresholds in place, but it did not alert us because the temporary storage was not part of the job itself, but rather the database tempor...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

    Add support for the BOOLEAN SQL data type to IBM i Access ACS Windows Application Package

    According to the ServiceLevel\readmesp.txt in the Windows Application Package it has last been updated in May 2024. So i guess the support for the BOOLEAN SQL data type isn´t implemented in the included ODBC Driver. This results in Errors when a B...
    3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

    Save SQL Scripts results with Labels

    Access Client Solutions- Run SQL Scripts will allow me to display the field names and the field labels in the results screen. But when I select the 'Save Results' option, the labels will not transfer into the saved document. Only the field names w...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Functionality already exists

    Returning a JSON in a string (RPG FREE) without back slash for an API REST

    When i use JSON_OBJECT into a VARCHAR who is returning from an API rest the values of KEY contains back slash before quotation marks. When i use a DS the result is OK but if i want to use JSON SQL functions i have the above problem. Is it possible...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Functionality already exists

    RPGLE Language Server (Language Server Protocol)

    The Language Server Protocol (LSP) was created by Microsoft in 2016 as an open-source protocol for use between source code editors or integrated development environments (IDEs) and servers that provide programming language-specific features like c...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Functionality already exists

    5733-ICC File upload over 100GB

    With 5733-ICC it is currently not possible to use files larger than 100GB, which is not practical. Use Case: Virtual tapes sizes bigger than 100GB.
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Functionality already exists

    On Access Client Actions add new options for Download and Upload a Save File

    Currently the easiest way to transfer a save file to or from an IBM i would be to use FTP. You can also do this via the Access Client but it is difficult to do. What I would propose to do is add two options Download Save File and Upload Save File ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

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