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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    COBOL SQL Precompiler able to use Host Variables using LIKE and SQL commands allowed in Copybooks

    Hi Jeff, Development reviewed the information you sent in and provided the following feedback: Thanks for providing examples to illustrate your questions. Unfortunately, both of the examples provided are not supported by the SQL COBOL precompiler....
    8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Enable Headless Execution for Interactive Green Screen Commands on IBM i

    Idea Summary : Introduce a capability to run interactive green screen commands (like WRKSBMJOB, WRKUSRJOB, WRKACTJOB, etc.) in headless mode, allowing scripts and automation tools to execute and retrieve results without requiring a 5250 terminal s...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

    ACS Spool File Download Options

    Be able to include the USRDTA in the file name when downloading a spoolfile to your local computer. The user data can mean something and it would be nice to be able to include that as part of the PDF file name.
    8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Change IBM ACS 5250 Console Verify to only check port 2301 when Encrypted Console Selected

    The default behaviour of the HMC v10 code is to no longer allow unencrypted 5250 Console session via Port 2300, for compatibility reasons ACS still needs to offer this unencrypted connections so that cannot and should not be removed. However, the ...
    8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    Add Transfer Data Rate to ACS IFS file Upload/Download interface

    The addition of a Data rate transfer information is useful telemetry data for IBM i SysAdmins and Networking specialists. The addition of this calculation (in addition to the simple percentage complete) data would help to monitor, diagnose and res...
    8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Modernize the 5250 display

    Hello, One of the recurring critiques when discussing ibmi is related to the 'green screens.' They are associated with an aging image of the machine. I absolutely do not share this opinion, but I hear it too often. Since IBMi can manage a multitud...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

    Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

    Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

    Adopted authority to SFTP connections

    Hello team, since a couple of days we are fighting with the SFTP connections, what is the problem? For BATCH process, there is no problem because you can use the "user profile" for the submission but... for interactive transactions, the sftp conne...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

    The IBM i pagseg conversion

    Hello team, in the OLD iNAV we had a feature called AFP, to use that, in addition you have to install the AFP Workbench Viewer, etc... the idea is to improve that in the new iNAV (the pagseg feature is not available in new iNAV), but in a modern w...
    8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Allow programs and service programs to FORCE library at top of system library list.

    When creating or changing Commands and Menus (*CMD, *MNU) objects you can set the PRDLIB, which cause the specified library to be inserted between the system library list and the user library list in the library list order. This provides a nice wa...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

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