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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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WRKJOB: CPI1157-Duplicate jobs found; can it return back to the list?

WRKJOB currently returns a list of matching jobs and asks me to select one. After having done so and examined the selected job, I get returned to a command line. Can it be enhanced to return to the list of jobs? Or the list be enhanced with a 5="W...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Not under consideration

IBM ACS - IFS - Send

With the new version 1.1.7.3 you can send file to other systems. This feature is really nice!But it would be easier when i could see the name behind the IP address.Thank you. Use Case: see description
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Add 3PAR to the list of natively supported storage

In order to use 3par with PowerVC it is required that we use the pluggable storage driver. This is cumbersome and makes upgrades difficult. In addition it makes it difficult to copy images to different storage towers and we are unable to import ou...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

Change description of temporary RSE members of RDi

In the temporary RSExxxx members, used to save by RDi, add in the description the user and original source name. Use Case: -
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV - be able to filter for move on directories

We would like to be able to filter for move operations for directories in QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV. Today we can only filter for move (it can be a file or a directory). Use Case: We have issues with users moving folders they should not do but we canno...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

AIX 7.2 LKU support RAM disk

support of RAM DISK for AIX 7.2 LKU operation
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

HMC - Correct Operating System version information for IBM i LPARs

The enhanced HMC interface shows incorrect information for the IBM i Operating System version that is loaded.
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Changes to CHGACTPRFL command

The CHGACTPRFL command only allows you to specify individual user id's. Use Case: It would be very beneficial if the command allowed you to "wildcard" the USERID parameter field. For example: ABC* versus ABC123, etc.
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Allow stored procedures created as *PGM objects to be called as exit point programs

When using the CREATE PROCEDURE SQL statement to create a *PGM Object it is NOT possible to call the generated object outside of SQL; doing so results in an error reporting "Pointer not set". Looking at the code generated as an intermediary step i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

novalink selection of IP interface

Add interface selection to Novalink to allow correct network solution
about 7 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration