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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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QMGTOOLS Option to Compare/Order Cross Reference PTFs Before an OS Upgrade

In QMGTOOLS option 24, PTF menu, can IBM add an option to compare/order cross-reference PTFs when planning for an OS upgrade, like from 7.4 to 7.5?
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

AI-Powered Job Log Analyzer

A native AI assistant that watches job logs (QHST, QSYSOPR, etc.) and :- Summarizes errors in human-readable form Suggests fixes from IBM docs Flags recurring patterns or anomalies Helps users and improves system reliability. It’s not "mission-cri...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

Enhanced Remote RSTLICPGM with License Acceptance Parameter

Current Limitation Today, when you run RSTLICPGM, if the product requires license acceptance, the system: Prompts interactively on the green screen OR requires a separate manual step using a CL program or override to accept the license This makes ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

IBM i AI Assistant (Like ChatGPT, But Specialized for IBM i)

An intelligent assistant (CLI + Web + 5250 integration) that allows system admins, developers, and operators to ask natural language questions and get actionable, accurate, context-aware responses specific to the IBM i ecosystem. Command Explanati...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

Add OPEN *ALL to RPG to open all files not already open.

Files defined as USROPN or already closed must be opened manually and individually and code must make sure each file is not already open. OPEN *ALL would be the complement to CLOSE *ALL.
22 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Last Updated Date for Server Firmware

Last server firmware upgrade date is not reflected when we use this command, DSPFMWSTS. However it is very beneficial to know when the last update/upgrade was performed by seeing this installation date next to the current level of firmware. We do ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
7 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

ADD in QSYS2 TABLES a new table to know wich programms use an exported porcedure from à service program

Hi, QSYS2 functions and tables allow you to know:- What procedures are exported by our service programs.- What programs use our service programs. But it is not possible to know which programs use which exported procedure. This is a pity because it...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

Add IFS source information to OBJECT_STATISTICS

Storing source information in the object is a very valuable audit tool. In this way auditors and DevOps providers can match source change dates and locations with the information stored in the object. Since more an more objects can be created from...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v8.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

We are getting dinged by Qualys that our IBM i is exposed to CVE-2023-51385. I have applied the fixes listed at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7123159 however IBM only chose to patch an old level of OpenSSH instead of putting on a new leve...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Submitted