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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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IBM i

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    RBAC for PowerHA and AdminDomain

    It would be helpful to provide product level security where not everyone can access administrative tasks. View access vs. Admin access.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Crash Support/Recovery for VE Diagrams

    Similar to Crash Recovery for SQL scripts, I would absolutely LOVE to have something similar for VE Diagrams. Too often , I keep VE Diagrams up of statements that I plan / want to review..but very frequently, my PC will reboot due to an update tha...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    Allow date formats to be configured for property dialogs in RSE

    Allow date formats to be configured for property dialogs in RSE so dates are easier to read. Personally, I prefer shorter dates.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    IBM needs to identify access paths for self-training on IBM i

    Free access IBM i systems like PUB400.COM have up to the present been critical in the community at providing venues for self-training in IBM i. I and others in the community consider it absolutely necessary that such venues continue, and the IBM t...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

    OLEDB error messages from ACS package V11.28.00 are not properly returned to Access VBA

    We are using Access 2019 VBA to connect to an IBM i (S914) database via OLEDB. Previously, we used "IBM i Access for Windows 7.1.1500" (IAW OLEDB), and error messages were returned correctly to Access VBA. Now, we are testing with "IBM ACS Applica...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Is a defect

    Add option to change the command that uses the Access Client Solutions change password plugin(pwchange)

    Add option to change (or change) the command that uses the Access Client Solutions change password plugin(pwchange) from CHGUSRPRF to CHGPWD or make it check the values so it meets the QPWDLVL and other systems values requirements for the password...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    RCVJRNE support journal entries QJORDJE5 Record Format (*TYPE5)

    System monitoring for many audit journal type to got relate IP information to determinate security issue
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Environment Branding Options for IBM Navigator for i landing page.

    Being able to tell at a glance the partition or environment you are signing into from the IBM Navigator would be immensely helpful in preventing adverse actions or changes in the wrong environment. Even changing the standard color scheme would be ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    Add a parameter in RSTOBJ command so we can restore files an can selecting attributes of files

    its usefull because may be you need to restore a group of large files with similar names (Like MST*) and only need to restore Physical files.something like this: RSTOBJ OBJ(*ALL) SAVLIB(MILIB) DEV(TAP01) OBJTYPE(*FILE) FILETYPE(*PF-DTA) or FILEATR...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Functionality already exists

    Allow ability to invoke Functions and Stored Procedures using Specific name in addition to Long Name.

    Currently Tables, Index and Views have the ability to invoke using either the long name or the short 10 character name. It will benefit for adopting both short and long names and stay consistent with Tables, Indexes and Views.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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