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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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Use of Kurbenetes for DOORS

We are working at Valeo on DOORS application at AWS, and with a pool of Application servers that have the Client version installed -> Front End (FE), and other pool that have the Database -> Back End (BE). We have dimension the servers with ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Needs more information

Outline not showing modified marker on fields using assignment operators

Fields modified using (at least) += are not showing in the outline as being modified "line# (m)". Use Case: I have Live outline on. See sample images for references.
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Is a defect

Size of a pdf with afprsc jpeg

When we create a PDF with the 5770ts1 product (afp/pdf transformation), the PDF size is high if it contains an image as JPEG (keyword dds afprsc) The PDF size is approximatively 3 times the size of the image (an image of 192 kb gives a PDF of 7864...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

snprintf() support in ProbeVue dynamic tracing

Implement snprintf() functionality within ProbeVue
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

PowerVC reporting

Use of a PowerVC reporting would offer a chargeback possibility, combining VM name, core- and memory-minutes (and possibly other parts). This report would also be good to generate from ansible and use for service follupup. also input our price for...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

openBMC and HMC, report also power is back.

We often get support calls and HMC events stating PSU / power supply issues has been detected. When the power is back we dont get that event / info which then needs more work for admins to check and close event.
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Suppress the SQL information messages when using debug.

Ability to suppress the SQL information messages when using debug. Use Case: When debugging RPG ILE program with embedded SQL the system generates thousands of spool files with SQL information messages such as "cursor opened", "cursor closed", "n ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

DLPAR "move" adapter option in Enhanced HMC GUI

System: Enhanced HMC GUIActor: DLPAR physical adapter Desc: DLPAR is used to dynamically move a physical adapter from one LPAR to another. In the Classic GUI, this option could be initiated from the current LPAR that the adapter was allocated to, ...
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future 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 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

ACS RSS allow for user controlled result row highlight

Currently, the results panel shows every other row or odd row with a grey background. Please allow for a feature to control when the break occurs to color the row background. There are times when I want to quickly review the results of a large set...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration