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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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SAML 2.0 integration with IBM HTTP server for i

Add SAML 2.0 to the existing authentication methods that are supported by the IBM HTTP server for i.
9 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

PDF/A with ZUGFeRD

Due to EU laws, we need the ability to create PDF/A files with ZUGFeRD.
4 months ago in IBM i / Print 2 Future consideration

Add os license expiration as an optional column on list of partitions on the HMC

Add OS_license_expiration as an optional column available on the HMC list of partitions. See this link https://imgur.com/gEpL1ZO
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

FOR-EACH with record level access

The new FOR-EACH is today working on list, however it would be nice if - in the future - it could be extended to also handle record level access. ( and perhaps also user defined iterators) The basic idea is to make tighter and more concise coding ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 9 Not under consideration

SYSTOOLS.READ_SPREADSHEET to be able to read xlsx files from SQL

It would be usefull to be able to read xlsx files from within RPG programs for importing data as a table function.
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Provide a PowerVC CLI which can be used to generates a file with a list of users and roles for MongoDB and MariaDB

provide a PowerVC CLI which can be used to generates a file with a list of users and roles for MongoDB and MariaDB.
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

DSPPGMREF with SQL

In SQL Services create a view or UDF, who have the same information as the CL command DSPPGMREF Use Case: get the list of programs that use a file ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

AIX 7.2/7.3 EFS PCI DSS v4.0 Compliance

PCI DSS v4.0 requires sensitive customer data to be encrypted at the file level. File security and volume level encryption are not sufficient. We believe EFS meets the PCI 4.0 standard but it is not documented anywhere.
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add native 2FA and/or MFA for 5250 and other interfaces to data

Data security insurance and other requirements are requesting Two Factor Authentication or Multi Factor Authentication access to data.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

Group PTF apply date

Keeping IBM i up-to-date is becoming more and more important when you look at today's threads. (Just think of December 2021 and the log4j issue.)As a result of that reporting when an IBM LPAR was protected also becomes more and more important for ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 8 Future consideration