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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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Standardize INFDS and Program Status Data Structure with reserved words and constants

Currently all information in Program Status Data Structure and File Information Data structure is accessd by position in the data structure. The naming is done in the program. Individual programmers use various naming conventions or no convention....
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

IBM i VPM client partition backup on DataDomain VTL - add TS3500 support

System: IBM i V7R4 - Virtual Partition Manager (VPM)Actor: User needing new feature Product DellEMC DataDomain is a commonly used product that provide Media Library emulation. Actually, the only emulation usable and certified for IBM i is the TS35...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC - versioning of instances

PowerVC provides Snapshot to capture disk of a vm or instance. This information does not include vm details (cpu memory network etc)Capturing an image of a vm would include all data, but this feature doesn't provide a way to tie that image as a "b...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Add Job Date Column as SPOOL FILE CREATION JOB DATE to OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES UDTF

The CREATE_TIMESTAMP column of the QSYS2.OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES UDTF is the System Date/Time that the SPOOL file was created. However, the need for the Job Date/Time on which the SPOOL File was created is needed. Need a new column JOB_RUN_DATE that ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

Allow default setting of 'home' and 'shell' user attributes

Some customers will have their system's users defined remotely through LDAP or a similar module; these users might be defined on Windows AD, for example. Although typically there should be the ability to set a user's home directory and shell on th...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

New feature on i Navigator to double confirm after click OK

Dear team, We found when accessing 'file shares' from i navigator, after clicked browse and OK, it will save the new folder directly. Is that possibile to modify or create a feature which would pop to confirm 'whether save the change' after click ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Add ability to "bind specific" most TCP/IP servers and clients

When I serve up multiple TCP/IP interfaces (IBM i itself and the numerous Domino, WAS, etc it also supports) I would like the ability to "bind specific" many of the servers and clients such as telnet, ftp, CIMOM, etc.Numerous security issues:- Net...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 11 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...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

TS002037047

HMC Test Call home is not a complete testWhen doing a test call home against the HMC a Problem number gets created and then a PMH should be supplied by the support center. The problems we are seeing is when no PMH is returned this are no alerts le...
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

Add who created PF and LF members in DSPF command

For security as well as maintenance/cleanup reasons, it would be helpful to know the user name associated with creating members within a physical and/or logical file. Use Case: When a duplicate member was present in a control file that is used for...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration