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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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Post-Quantum Cryptography

Add to DCM the possibility of Post-Quantum Cryptography and also update version of OPENSSL to 3.50 for use it
16 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

RPG Source compare for *functional* differences

As many of us are doing these days, we are converting our old RPG 3, RPG ILE, etc. to 100% free RPGLE (**free) and making changes in VSCode. This is good. However, When you have to Peer Code Review your co-workers changes, it is extremely difficul...
19 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Notifications and Alerting

Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
19 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Better Visibility/Logging

It would be a great help to provide logs to allow end users the ability to triage issues.
19 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

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.
19 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Pendant to SND-MSG to retrieve the error message text

Being mainly a C# developer, it seams for me completely absurd that in RPG when you send an escape message with the SND-MSG function, you don't have a built in function to retrieve the error message text! Instead of having each developer/company t...
20 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

New compile option for embedded SQL allowing to raise SQL errors as RPG errors

Something like EXEC SQL SET OPTION SQLERRHANDLING = *EXCEPTION; that would allow a user to trap exceptions like this: monitor; EXEC SQL SELECT * FROM TABEL_THAT_DOES_NOT_EXISTS; on-excp [Whatevere error code for SQL error]; //Do something endmon;
20 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

RDI: Possibility to force an update of the image in Screen Designer

When editing a DDS screen file in the Screen Designer we have the possibility to switch between a Design and a Source window. So far so good. Unfortunately it happens that when changes are made to the source and you switch back to the Design windo...
20 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

RDI: Remember last Filter view > Date

When right clicking in a source and select Filter view > Dateit allways shows the current date and less than.In almost 100% of cases I change it to a lesser date for example 251001 and search for greater than. This works OK. I can see what has ...
20 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

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.
22 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted