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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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Capability to leverage AIX MPIO & EMC PowerPath

Would like to manage RootVG LUNs by AIX MPIO and DataVGs / LUNs to be managed by DELL - EMC Multipath - PowerPath.
about 6 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

PowerVC support for Diskimage-builder

The customer is currently using Diskimage-builder for to prepare and build all SOE's (including other platforms such as Intel). Customer is seeking official support for this tool to package SOE images for PowerVC to use.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

BRMS SAVLIB *NONSYS ENHANCEMENT

Can I request an enhancement for the SAVLIB *NONSYS and the ability to omit libs. SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) DEV(QTAPEXX) OMITLIB(XXXXXX YYYYYY ZZZZZZZ) OUTPUT(*PRINT) Use Case: Prefer to recover system using media from SAVLIB *NONSSYS as opposed to usin...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

"create type" with all characteristics like column table

Improve the SQL "create type" command by adding the column header, the field text and all the possible features that are in a field of a table. In this way it would be possible to create the tables by simply referring to the "type" without definin...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

PureStorage Active Cluster support for PowerVC

Would be great to have similar support for Dual site storage mirroring, as there is currently with SVC & HyperSwap on PowerVC 2.0.2. (please see RFE 113249 for details: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=...
about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Filter for I Projects Navigator

We have many Ibm i projects with many source files/members, we have to compare the sources with each other. It's not easy to select two source member in a very long list of source files and members.It should be very useful a filter box in I Projec...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Add File output option in Web Query to clear file first

A new File & Printer DB2 option (Format tab) in Web Query Version 2.2 that should be = Clear and Insert to existing table. Use Case: This feature could be used to Clear and Insert data in a table that is used in a view.The ‘Create or replace t...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 4 Not under consideration

Support ability to 'Lock In' a DB2 Plan

The DB2 optimizer continually reevaluates all conditions/variables to create the best plan at that moment. And almost always, the optimizer creates the best plan. There are times however, when the optimizer makes a poor choice. And when it does, t...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Add copy or send function to ACS Printer Output

Please add copy or send options to ACS Printer Output. The original reports would need to stay in the Outque you are copying from. Use Case: This would allow us to move reports from one partition to another, particular if needed to store on an anc...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

creation of folder in IACS

Folders for Ibm Access Client Solutions Use Case: Would it be possible to create for Ibm Access Client Solution as for System i Navigator I some folders, this allowed to group the various connection by environment, instead of having all of the sys...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration