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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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    Add Database Schema back to iNavigator

    I have many users who require access to Database schema via iNavigator.This function is not available in "new" iNavigator and my users are forced to use the heritage version, which requires me to go manually start Admin2 It is unrealistic to ask t...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Other 2 Not under consideration

    include SAMBA support in RPMs (moving from PTF support)

    the current support for SAMBA is provided by PTF. It would be beneficial if this support was moved to the new RPM OpenSource offering Use Case: easier adoption of SAMBA if we do not have to download A PTF then run an install or update script
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

    Add "WITH NC"for commands CREATE TABLE/DROP TABLE , CREATE INDEX/DROP INDEX

    DB2/400 supports WITH NC hint for Insert/Update/Delete commands . It allows to execute SQL statements out of SQL transaction and without DB2/400 journaling. In the past data definition command like CREATE TABLE / CREATE INDEX were executed out of ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Highly available SDN through Nova Link

    We have a need to have a highly available SDN in Novalink
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

    Virtual Networks display - improve the order of items listed, or allow the user to save a preferred order

    HMC V9 and V10 GUI - the Virtual Networks display can have a high number of virtual networks listed. Please can these be ordered either by PVID ascending or by Virtual Network Name ascending to allow the user to organise the display. Alternatively...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Integrate Fix Central in the PowerHA GUI

    the availability to have an easier way to just see FixCentral information.IT would be an interesting feature to integrate this in the PowerHA GUI to have it on a single Management interface.
    almost 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

    RDI: Missing an option for Hide Block Nesting

    We have the possibility to select Source > Show Block Nesting. I'm missing an option to Hide Block Nesting ( or remove it). Right now I have to close the source and reopen it in order to remove them. There might be an easy way to do it but I ha...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    GraalVM

    With the new upcoming version 11 of Java and beyond, the "classic" script engines of JavaScript and Python will be discontinued. Nashor and Jython will disappear in favor of running Java, Python, JavaScript, and more on the common VM - the GraalVM...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Not under consideration

    ACS - Provide for parameter definition to be user definable in Generate SQL --> DDL.

    I use the schema definitions on a daily basis. As part of modernization of the native database definitions to SQL, I need to retrieve the DDL code from existing objects such as physical files, Logical files, tables, views etc. The process in ACS r...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

    ACS - add LOCATE function to scan existing *.SQL files for text entry

    Within ACS, you have Content Assist and Examples. Please consider adding a way to search your folder(s) of saved *.SQL files for a specific text value, such as MERGE, LIBRARYNAME, or FILENAME. This would enable developers to quickly open a saved s...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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