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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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DDS: Add trim-indicator to all mainstream 1D BARCODE (i.e. COD128)

DDS: Add trim-indicator to all mainstream 1D BARCODE (i.e. COD128) like 2D QR barcodes. Frequently used codes like COD128 lacks the ability to trim right spaces before rendering the barcodes. Consequently, a real case of a field say of 30 chars, t...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Show NUMA Scoring of a LPAR in LPAR Overview as selectable field

in the Partition overview it would be helpful as a selectable column field to selecet NUMA Scoring and see how the scoring for all lpars for a power server is
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

QShell Improvements

When starting a Qshell for an IBM i Connection within RDi, currently it behaves significantly different from the shell environment started in 5250 emulation with command STRQSH. Most important features STRQSH has, but RDi Qshell has not: 1) Upon s...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Saving Macros in LPEX Editor

Hello,i am missing a functionality in the LPEX Editor. I often use the macro recording function to make changes i my code. This is a very cool feature because it is very simple to use. But in some cases i would wish to save a recorded sequence and...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

CPYTOSTMF

The CPYTOSTMF does not have the functionality to create a "Native Excel" XLS or XLSX file when the FROMFILE is an Physical file . Currently the CPYTOSTMF creates a delimited file separating fields using a comma, tilde, semicolon, etc. Suggest the ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

Provide filter on ACS Active Sessions pane

This RFE applies to Access Client Solutions: We have over 100 IBM i systems in our network. Due to the number of active 5250/Printer/Console sessions, the ACS display Active Sessions panel is essential to our job for navigating between sessions. W...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

IP based Printers

An API that can show IP addresses for remote output queue or printers using IP addresses. We have several client systems that we support. Having a simple way to list those IP addresses would make supporting their systems easier for us. Use Case: W...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Not under consideration

Convert to Free Format for D, P and F-Specs

We are missing an option to convert D, P and F-Specs automatically to Free format Syntax. This is currently only working for C-Specs. Please add this feature to the existing function. Currently you can reach the function by right-click on the RPG-...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images"

Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" #####################################mkrep -sp rootvg -size 20Gls -l /fix/AIX_v7.2_Base_Install_DVD_1_of_2_TL_7200-01-01.1...
over 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

PEP 2.0 Support for Novalink/CMC

Request to enhance MCM to support Novalink with PEP 2.0 capacity Credits.
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 5 Needs more information