IBM Power Ideas Portal


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 4485

Outline API

It will be really great if the Outline classes could be used from a RDp Plugin project or from a custom Java class. This will allow a programmer to parse RPG source code an to obtain related metadata from it. For example, detect which variables ar...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Olap Save As - (Won't overwrite existing named report, but creates a second one).

The Olap Save As feature will not overwrite the same named report, rather it creates a second report with the exact same name. This is confusing because unless you are an admin you can't tell which one is the newest since it won't tell you the day...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

Problem with CPYFRMIMPF command and file with CCSID = 1208 UTF-8

When using command CPYFRMIMPF FROMCCSID(1208) UTF-8 and *FIXED format, each national characters coded on 2 bytes are causing shifting of data in output file. As explained by iGSC in PMR 61492,001,822 when using *FIXED format and multi-byte code po...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Redesign HMC welcome text to be unformatted or allow HTML tags

The HMC welcome text is automatically reformatted in the HMC web interface and does not met the layout conform the input file. This RFE propose a redesign of the HMC web user interface to allow: - Create a button to allow unformatted text so the l...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

PMR visualizer and analytics

In a company with compute resources in many countries where system administrators, both employees and sourced resources, create SR´s with their own ibm id. The total ongoing PMR´s cannot be global view-able by everyone in the team as of today. I w...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Prevent IFS directory from being created if iASP with the same nama exist

I think it would be a good idea to prevent an IFS directory to be created if an iASP with the same name as the directory exists.At the moment, the IFS directory can be created with the consequence that at vary-on of the iASP, the file system will ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

More flexible list

When defining a Web Service using IWS it's only possible to limit the size of the returned list by selecting a return parameter that is placed as a first level parameter field when using the "Count" feature or by using the hard coded feature "Dete...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

Blocking ?UAK expired events log? call out for Customer China Unionpay

Customer China unionpay has over 100 9119-MME E870 system running production, the UAK expired events log call out every 180 days for every single E870 system. For the over 100 system, customer have to update UAK new license with very high frequenc...
almost 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

Automatically add PHA cluster to KSYS setup

It would be useful if the Setup of the KSYS server would automatically create a single node PHA cluster.
almost 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add OS version compatibility to LPM verification check process

LPM passed verification, LPAR successfully migrated, however, the OS version running in the LPAR was AIX 5.3, which is not supported on the target frame ( Power8 E870). Partition was non-functional, and had to be manually recovered back to the sou...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.