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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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Future price update should be reflected on e-Config

We see quite many price increase or decrease announcements with future effective date, but e-Config always output the price as of today. We want to have some mechanism in e-Config to specify the "as of date" in order to reflect the updated future ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

Pass SQL statement from RPG to "Run SQL Scripts"

I would like to pass a sql statement (SELECT) from RPG to "Run SQL Scripts" (Access Client Solutions ). The "Run SQL Scripts" application should execute this statement and present the result set in a separate window. Use Case: Execute predefined s...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Not under consideration

make landscape PDF display as portrait

Request to a product of a IBM i Access Client Solutions(ACS).Outputting PDF with ACS (Java Printing Service) and opened with PDF viewer, even landscape orientation files are always displayed vertically.We request making landscape oriented PDF file...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Tabbed formatting in report headers, footers

I need to be able to set tabs in the headers, so I can align information correctly. Currently, I have a need to put a location name to the left, a field description to the right on a right tab, and a field total on a decimal tab on the right. IA d...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 6 Not under consideration

Enhancements for AIX Live Update

Would it be technically possible to somehow "push" the AIX Live Update from the PowerVC side to the AIX client, instead of doing the the pvcauth for needed token from AIX client > PowerVC prior to the actual update? I opened a discussion on thi...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX Live Kernel Update - make mhdisk (mirrored rootvg) optional rather than mandatory

One of the impediments to using AIX Live Update is the number of disks required to achieve it, particularly when performing subsequent updates between reboots. This adds up when you are talking about hundreds of LPARs being managed. Currently, the...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Additional ctrl-/ comment format option

In free form RPG code (any kind), how about a commenting option for "place two slashes in front of the selected line(s) where the left-most line currently begins and shift the selected line(s) right 2 spaces". The lines are already shifted right 2...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Offer Windows USB recovery media tool for the HMC

IBM only offer a Linux method of creating a USB bootable recovery image for the HMC (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6454883). It would be good to have a media creation tool for Windows which can take the ISO recovery image and format the U...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

support ssh key parameter for Brocade Fabrics

PowerVC 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 do not currently support using SSH keys to secure access to Brocade switches when added to the PowerVC fabric - this key is exposed as "fc_fabric_ssh_cert_path = (String) Local SSH certificate Path." in cinder.conf but not ...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Maintenance mode : Migration Evaluation upfront to detect failures and prevent canceling all migrations

We would like to see the whole maintenance mode (also known as "evacuate mode") , check first if there are errors in the precheck and validation steps, and then put them aside if they are failed, and run the migrations of the good ones . At the sa...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration