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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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Enhance ACS ENPTUI GUI Window Board to be graphical

Enhance the so-called GUI Border for 5250 windows (both DDS and DSM) so that they are rendered using actual drawn borders, instead of textual characters that were embedded to support fixed-dimension displays; displays that no longer exist. Use Cas...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Support For Pure Storage For HA + DR

Ford has switched to Pure Storage and would like to automate DR such that during a disaster, VMRM would be able to automatically change the replication and mounts such that Ford can failover to DR automatically.
almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Make find option similar to find as we know it from web browsers

I keep hitting the scroll wheel on my mouse after doing a search in RDi and to my big frustration the scroll wheel affects find history instead of the source. There is also the part where you search for something in the Source and you want to high...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

D-Spec Convert to Free Format

It would be extremely helpful to be able to convert D-Specs into free format declarations. Use Case: It would allow the ability to copy code from non-free format sources into totally **FREE code by having it easily converted.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

Container support for PowerHA GUI

It will be useful to have the ability to get a pre-installed and setup WPAR or Ansible based Container Image for the GUI server of PowerHA
almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

Add 'command' action to Lpex Editor Actions

Add a new Lpex Editor Action: 'command' Use Case: Lpex Editor Actions allow us to attach an Lpex function to a keyboard shortcut or mouse click. There are some simple commands, like trim, which can't easily be attached to a keyboard shortcut. If t...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Option to have full usage history log of an object

Currently there are only 2 attributes of usage info for an object: Last used date Days used count 1. Last used date gives only the date used, not the time used.2. "Days used count" does not give us which days it was used.3. We do not know which us...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

NFS based files as BackingDevices for vSCSI mapping

Allow files located on NFS shares mounted on the VIOs to be used as BackingDevice for vSCSI mapping (similar to VMware data store). Until now file based BackingDevices are only possible using StoragePools or ISOs.
over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

BUG 2040 is approaching and it's DUE!

Starting from YEAR 2040 6 digit dates will crash the program or give invalid results! If IBM wants the users to stop using 6digit dates, then it should be a compiler option, to make sure that such code that will crash or give invalid results after...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Not under consideration

Add Hyperlink directly to external stored procedure source

I have a call to an external procedure and I'd like to browse the code.So I pressed CONTROL and hoovered the cursor over the procedure whichchanged the external procedure into a hyperlink. I then pressed ENTER.This took me to the copy statement fo...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration