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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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Resource based constrained delegation

We would like to have "Resource based constrained delegation" in the next Java release. As per support case TS006005382, it was suppose to be in 8u301 but it's not.
about 3 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

Make it possible to also define SYSTEM NAME for short LONG NAME for tables

When creating an SQL Table we define long descriptive names for them. We also define SYSTEN NAME that is used to name RPG Procedure Source files, Modules and Service Programs. When the descriptive "LONG NAME" is 10 letters long or shorter it is ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

API or SQL Service similar to QDCRDEVD DEVD1100 to retrieve *lan printers Address

Currently the only way to get the ip address for a *lan printer is DSPDEVD and page down. We have hundreds of printers and it would be beneficial to our help desk to be able to find it without giving them access DSPDEVD.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

HMC Call home Function alert related to FQDN

Hello Team, Currently, our HMC has been configured with callhome feature and we do receive alerts whenever there is an issue/event generated within HMC for any partitions. So, we need your help on the below.Whenever the event generates, it should ...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Export Print in ACS

In the ACS you have the window with the print output.When you have *scs spools you can export these as pdf.But when you have *ipds oder *apfds the application is not able to transform this to a pfd.the acs should be able to export this as a pdf. U...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Not under consideration

System tables to use date / time fields instead of character fields in job format

Current IBM supplied output files, such as QADSPOBJ, that are use as templates for associated system commands store dates in 2 character fields and times in single character fields. Given the power of Db2 for i and the availability of date / time...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Future consideration

Direct to System License Program Download

The ability to download License Programs directly to the iSeries without having to log into a PC to do so. Eg. 5770-JV1 Option 14 & 15. Use Case: I have multiple end users that have upgrade from V6R1 to V7R2 and no longer have the Virtual Imag...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Not under consideration

remove lpars and rmc keys from hmc

We like to have a button or command on the HMC to remove old or invalid RMC connections and keys to existing lpars that changed form ip address.This command should cleanup information in the Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM) repository) we ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 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 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Not under consideration

Change default instance for LDAP tcp server

Hello, one of our lpars has the QUSRDIR2 instance working under the LDAP tcp/ip server, and due that, the LDAP server is in "stopped" status but that is not correct. May be there is a possibility to assign any instance as default for that tcp serv...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Future consideration