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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IBM i

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    Add ability to quickly connect to server in ACS RSS

    Today I am required to use a mouse to select the server I want to connect to IF i disconnect from the one I connected to when I started ACS RSS plugin. Please make a drop down as exists on the main ACS app or allow for buttons to be added to quick...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Allow embedded debug information to be encrypted after program has been created

    Provide the ability to add a debug encryption key after a program has been created. Use Case: A ISV needs to send a customer debuggable code, but doesn't want the customer to have access to the embedded debug information. Currently, they would hav...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

    Have compile action always available

    When you have a source member(s) open and the cursor is not active in the active source member and you use Ctl+Shift+C just compile the active source member. Currently it is grayed out and thus, annoying. Use Case: I'm editing a source member, cli...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Wordpress Installation in IBM I

    Wordpress installation in IBM I to build a customized web portal. By introducing this feature now the Business customer can build web portal in-house using IBM I. Which will cut down the amount spent on hosting website and maintaining using Cloud ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Not under consideration

    Stronger encryption in IBM Navigator for I Series

    Base-64 encoding is not a sufficient method to ensure password confidentiality. The application continues to store password data in a dangerous manner and allows its reading through the HTTP GET request.The desired solution would be, for example, ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Not under consideration

    Allow PDI reporting to be scheduled.

    Each month I need to present the same charts to several customers.It would be great if reporting could be scheduled for PDI so charts get created and sent by email.Thanks!!! Use Case: Performance and Capacity planning.
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 2 Future consideration

    RDi : Debug to be enhanced to work with DBGENCKEY

    It is not possible in RDi (as of 5.6.0.3) to debug a program or service program that was compiled with a debug encryption key on DBGENCKEY. When this is attempted, it throws a CRRDG3031E error saying the listing could not be opened. Once this erro...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    In the LPEX editor, add an option to Copy/Move a selected block before the current line.

    In the LPEX editor, add an option to copy or move a selected block before the current line. At present, the only option is to move the block to after the current line. If you are trying to move something to the top, you have to split the top line ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Call Command Parameter Logging in Job Log

    When reviewing a job log to investigate an issue, if the user is running a CL program that calls another program with parameters, the call command is logged and a comment is added " /* The CALL command contains parameters */". It would be very use...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 5 Not under consideration

    Order of parameters on DSPUSRPRF versus CRTUSRPRF

    The order that the parameters appear on the screen when executing a DSPUSRPRF command versus a CRTUSRPRF command is disjointed. Use Case: Often, when creating a new user profile, we reference another user profile as to the settings for the user. S...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

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