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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

IBM i

Showing 2909

add 3270 emulation to ACS client

We currently have a need for a java emulator 5250 which works well with the exception that we also need the same java client (ACS) to have the ability to connect 3270 to our mainframe. We would like to have 3270 added to ACS 5733 XJ1 Use Case: War...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Json datatype create table

The idea would be to create a json datatype as happens in other dbms. This allows you to create fields in json type files (and not blobs as suggested in some documentation) while also verifying their actual validity.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

ACS - Add more attributes to the Printer output displays

The Printer Output display in ACS shows a limited number of fields. Please could you add the remaining fields. I find that I need to see fields like form type, user defined fields and the common fields used daily are missing. I have to go back to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Security settings on Save Restore

Add ability to override source security settings when restoring an object. Use Case: When saving an object on one system and restoring to another system will keep the settings from the object which already exists on the system being restored to. W...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Watchesspawning QSCWCHPS jobs

When you create a message queue watch, the OS spawns a QSCWCHPS job whenever the specified message ID is generated. That QSCWCHPS job determines if it's for the specified message queue and, if it is, executes the watch program. This causes a treme...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

Syntax support for new Cobol verbs

Today syntax checking isn't done for new Cobol verbs like EXIT SECTION, EXIT PARAGRAPH, EXIT PERFORM and ALLOCATE. We are using EXIT SECTION a lot now but RDi always shows that it is some error in the code.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Allow for case option in RPG Procedure Wizard

I love the RPG procedure wizard for creating my RPG procedures. However, there is one thing that I think would make it better. If there was a way to be able to specify the case of the text in much the same way you can specify how you want the "'EN...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Rational Developer for i, Source Compare too many clicks

In IBM Rational Developer for i, when you are in a source member, such as RPGLE, and you want to compare that source to another version of the source, say the production version you have to do a whole lot of clicking and typing before you find the...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

CHGASPACT: new functionality (*BCD) i.e. best can do. Stay in SUSPEND state even if not everything could be suspended.

Hello IBM, I recently discussed options of CHGASPACT with IBM support (CASE TS014216210). We normally use chgaspact aspdev(*sysbas) option(*suspend) ssptimo(60) ssptimoacn(*END) In case, this is not successful, *CONT is not an option for us. We ne...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Functionality already exists

Add functionality to iNav - the ability to review entries in any Journal Receiver

In the same way you can view entries in the System Audit Journal - add the functionality to view entries in any journal on the server. This is a nice to have feature that would allow using the same modern interface to research data related transa...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.