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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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Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Include Specific Entry Type in SYSLOG Output from QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL

Description: When generating SYSLOG output using the QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL function, the resulting information only includes the journal code and the journal entry type. However, it does not include the specific entry subtype contained in each ent...
6 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted
248 VOTE

Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage Not under consideration

IFS and folders properties

When handling IFS, when an object's properties are requested, all are returned very quickly except the size and number of objects and folders. The size and number of objects are updated fairly quickly, but if the folder contains a large number of ...
3 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Provide a programatic interface to reset prestart job statistics

There are SQL interfaces to review prestart job entries and prestart job statistics; these statistics are useful for prestart job tuning, particularly INLJOBS. The tuning can be done programmatically with the CHGPJE command. However, once INLJOBS ...
4 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Submitted

Typed pointers in RPG: Stronger type safety for pointers

Currently, RPG has exactly two types of pointers: Basing pointers Procedure pointers These pointer types hold no type information about the pointer's target. Currently, when defining a BASED variable, the compiler cannot verify that the vari...
7 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

PowerVC FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize support to align with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize feature releases.

Currently PowerVC with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize support is not aligned with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize feature releases. PowerVC should align with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize releases in the same way that it aligns with Power releases...
28 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

Enhancement for SELF: exclusion list

In production environments, running SELF with *ERROR monitoring enabled is highly valuable for identifying potential issues in SQL executed on production LPARs. However, a challenge arises when frequently occurring and well‑understood SQL errors—s...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

add CLI option to GUI-feature : "Schedule-management" jobs

setting up "Schedule-management" jobs is currently a GUI-only feature. (V11R1M1111) add a CLI functionality to this feature. and a clear logging/messaging for active or expired schedule jobs.
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

AIX 7.3 FC stack enhancement for SAN environments using Simplified, TDZ or Smart zoning.

In modern SAN environments leveraging Simplified zoning, Target Driven Zoning or Smart Zoning, AIX or VIOS Fibre Channel ports may be exposed in fabric query responses alongside other targets.Under certain conditions this results in initiator‑to‑i...
21 days ago in AIX Submitted