IBM Power Ideas Portal


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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    Explaination needed as to why traditiona IBM i support for N-2 seems to be vanishing

    For decades IBM has support the current release of the operation system (IBM i) and the prior 2 releases of same. Today, it sees only V7R5 and V7R4 are being enhanced and V7R3 is being abandoned before an enevatable V7Rn+1 is announced or shipped....
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

    BRMS Enterprise Services

    BRMS Enterprise Services - Seems to be issues with the way the node policy works and developers notice issues but developers are stating the product is working as design. Node policy is running for all partitions in the environment although they a...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

    Recipient Email Notification of AJS jobs when job time limit exceeded

    We need Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS) have the ability to send an email notification (not message to the message queue of the user running the scheduled job) to be sent after a specified scheduled job exceeds the time limit threshold specified in t...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

    IBM i Access Client Solutions Enhancements

    I would like to see the New Tab preferences under the Edit, Preferences on the main menu. It is currently under the Edit, Preferences in the session manager area. Use Case: It would be easier to find if it was on the main menu.
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Change Command Default for Create Network Server Desc (CRTNWSD) to *GUEST

    As IBM i hosting IBM i has become ever more popular, when creating a Network Server Description (CRTNWSD) it is much more likely you would want to specify IBM i parameters rather than the default Windows based ones. I think that changing these com...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

    Allow "Display Path Status" from command line

    currently the only interface to view the current Disk Path Status is in Service Tools. Would like to be able to see that information from the WRKDSKSTS screens (via a F-11 option view) Use Case: only way to view disk path status is to logon to Ser...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Not under consideration

    Referential Constraint issues job log

    The problem: qsqsrvr running an SQL request and it receives back an error: SQL0352. The qsqsrver job then job logs. I am depending on the database to give me this feedback (SQL0352) however I want to control whether or not it job logs. Per the PMR...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

    SNDSMTPEMM RCP keyword reformats valid email address

    We're in the process of replacing use of SNDDST with SNDSMTPEMM. Some of our group email addresses contain an embedded dash '-'. When an email address with a dash is passed to SNDSMTPEMM, the command processor reformats the address with a space ' ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Is a defect

    Code Coverage Filter

    I would like the ability to use filters with code coverage. This ability does not exist currently. Use Case: When unit testing a service program it may call procedures from several other service programs or even external programs. I am not necessa...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Block selection and single-keystroke navigation between open source members

    Prior to RDi 9.0, you could do the following: - Have two or more members open. - Select a line to move or copy from one member ? ?to another using Alt+L. - Optionally use Shift+Up or Shift+Down arrows to highlight a block of code. - Use Alt+Left o...
    about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

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