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).


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    [AJS] check JOB dependencies when running a SBMJOBJS

    CHKDEP parameter for SBMJOBJS command only check for resource dependencies or for active JOB dependencies.When we add JOB dependencies to AJS, SBMJOBJS don't mater of them and we can submit a JOB without that is predecesor as running. Use Case: SB...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

    Service Entry Point - center execution line

    Preferences specify to center execution line when in debug but that and double clicking on a variable to set a monitor don't work unless I change to *LISTING. Also why isn't my operating system (i5) listed as an option? Use Case: I'm a programmer ...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    rmvdev -rmlv should check to see if LV is in use before removing

    To avoid deleting an active/used LV, it would be really helpful if the 'rmvdev' (and any other commands that remove LVs from the VIO Server) would check to see if a specified LV is stil in use or not.
    almost 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

    Randomly Generated Password for root/qsecofr accounts

    Please add functionality to randomly generate a password for the root or QSECOFR account when deploying a template.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add delay parameter to SBMJOB command

    Please add a DELAY parameter to the SBMJOB command that would first delay the job for the specified number of seconds, then run the command in batch. Use Case: We have external systems that upload files to the IBM I for processing, and then have a...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 6 Not under consideration

    Ability for Access Client Solutions to use Host Operating System Credentials to connect IBM i

    Ability of IBM iClient Access solutions to use the credentials of the operating system of the PC, either Windows, Mac or Linux, to connect IBM i through 5250 emulation, as Client Access for Windows did. Use Case: Users can connect to different ser...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    RDi word navigation

    Use Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right for word navigation, not just whitespace. Characters like parameter separators (:), comparison operators (<, <=, >, >=, =), mathematical operators (+, -, *, /) should be "stop points." Bonus (although it sh...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    ACS Printing Issue about Chinese UDC, Missing Paper Size and Printing Width

    Issue: ACS is missing printing paper size - US Standard Fanfold in Win10. Based on the testing done with IBM supporting team, we believed it is not the issue about Windows or the Printer driver, since other applications such as Office Word can fin...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Toolbar size too small

    Our company use IBM i for our production reporting environment. We create custom toolbars with macros that allow them to perform multiple functions. However on the new java verison (1.1.6.0) there is no option to increase the toolbar size along wi...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Screendesigner shows G-fields with CCSID1200 and *LEN with wrong length

    When using Graphic-Fields with CCSID 1200 and *LEN or *MIN, the Screendesigner paints them with a wrong length and overlaps fields or records which is not correct. Also the Sourcecode Editor shows wrong error messages. You can compile the display ...
    over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

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