IBM Power Ideas Portal


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    Allow double click to expand/collapse an Outline element

    Currently, to expand/collapse an Outline view element, like "Files", "Data Structures", "Fields", etc, (or any of the sub elements), we need to click the arrow to the left of the element name. It would be convenient to allow us to double click a g...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Display current phase for each workgroup in the GUI

    In the GUI, display the current phase of every workgroup for both "Rehearsal Phase" and "Move Phase". More workgroups can add more confusion about which workgroup is in which phase during testing or real DRs. It would be helpful if the GUI were al...
    about 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    updateios breaks the update due to network disruption

    You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS011570960Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.4.10 on top of his system 3.1.3.14.During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to network dis...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Need SQL Procedures to allow the ownership to be changed and to allow the use of adopted authority

    We would like to have an SQL statement way of changing the ownership of a stored procedure. The TRANSFER OWNERSHIP SQL statement does not support stored procedures.In addition, there needs to be a SQL statement way of allowing a stored procedure t...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Multi-select in IBM Navigator for I - Specially job logs for active jobs

    Allow multi-select in the IBM Navigator for i web client. Use Case: I need to identify which service job (QZDASOINIT running for particular user) is running a particular process. In the deprecated System i Navigator client, I multi-select all the ...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

    Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted

    Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted instead of shrinking fs with chfs reclaim option (normal or fast)
    9 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Provide an option to prevent ACS Run SQL Scripts from advancing to the next statement whenever a statement is executed

    When you execute a query in the Run SQL Scripts tool (Ctrl-R or Run Selected) the next query in the window is automatically selected/highlighted after the executed query completes. When working with long complex queries, the automatic advancement/...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

    HMC: Show partial processors

    All Systems, RACK3,PartitionsTable View I clicked the icon off to the right to add Processor Allocated. However it only shows full processor allocations. Most of my lpars are subprocessor.I tried to use the export to export this list to a CSV but ...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Is a defect

    get_xml_file() need to be encoding agnostic

    The get_xml_file() is a fantastic tool to load XML files from the IFS. However it will fail if data is stored in utf-16LE format.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Allow shorter audit value columns

    The audit columns defined as GENERATED ALWAYS AS USER, SESSION_USER or CURRENT CLIENT_USERID require the column to be either 18, 128 or 255 bytes. While this is maybe a theoretical limit it makes no sense in 99.999% of the cases as usernames on IB...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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