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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    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

    Generate an error in the event of memory corruption

    We would like an enhancement to protect or ensure that the storage areas that are used by DB2 are not corrupted by a cobol program or RPG program / or if there is corruption that an error is generated ( rather than returning an sql code like +100)...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic source building

    The features allows the user to configure how an specific source member will be compiled and binded in order to automatically build the source when a change is detected on the code. Use Case: The user press right click on a source member and selec...
    over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

    DLTIMGCLG -- disks goes 100% busy

    Deleting an image catalog and its related IFS.files using this command DLTIMGCLG IMGCLG(myImgClg) KEEP(*NO) causes the disks to be 100% busy. This simply kills the system, putting everything to a halt. And it can not be interrupted once started. I...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 2 Is a defect

    Multiple Shared Processor Pools for each Logical Partition

    Shared Processor Pools are useful for limiting the total CPU usage of a group of partitions. Partitions can be grouped by type (production and test for example), by customer, or to take advantage of subcapacity licensing.Difficulties arise when a ...
    almost 9 years ago in PowerVM 2 Not under consideration

    Possibility to use *LIBL when attaching DB Fields as Reference in Screendesigner

    When attaching Reference Fields within the Screendesigner, to a display always the Library is explicitely defined. It would be nice to configure this behaviour and to be able to choose the usage of *LIBL instead Use Case: When using different Libr...
    over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Update or delete commands to comply with current hardware choices

    Is CRTCTLLWS even valid anymore? Is ASCII or twinax valid options? CRTDEVDSP:Are most of the DEVCLS, TYPE, MODEL obsolete? Can you use *LCL, *RMT and get it to work on an IBM I 7.3 system?Does IBM i Access Client Solutions support most of the TYPE...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 5 Future consideration

    Make managing ciphers in QSSLCSL easier using 2-digit cipher codes and use these codes everywhere

    It would be easier to manage ciphers in the system value using the 2-digit codes simply because ciphers also have to be managed in SST (SSLCONFIG/TLSCONFIG) where the 2-digit code in required when adding/removing ciphers to the eligible list. Give...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    Delete and other options on Outline view of DDS Desginer

    Add options to the Outline view in the DDS Designer perspective--e.g., 'Delete' to delete the selected component, 'Align', etc. This should be available in the Design tab as well as the Source tab. It would enable edit functions on hidden fields a...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

    Add AFP Manager function to Navigator for i web User interface

    Currently, IBM i Access for Windows i Navigator has "AFP Manager" function". This allows customer to import AFP resources from other platforms/tools in BINARY format. However, There is not equivalent function on Navigator for i web User interface....
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

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