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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    Paste next function not working properly on IBM i ACS

    Hi,I am using Java based version of IBM i ACS for 5250 sessions on Windows 7 PC. I am using SAVOBJ/RSTOBJ commands to backup/restore more than 15 (Say 26) objects using IBM i 5250 sessions. Only 25 objects are getting pasted on 5250 session when "...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Is a defect

    add rule to manage 'at' scheduling like 'crontab' in AIXPERT

    we are using aixpert to setup our secuirty baseline for AIX estate. it works good, but we realized it missing some rule set, for example we have rule set to control crontab scheduling, but we did not find one for 'at' scheduling. the rule set we u...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Functionality already exists

    Advanced Job Scheduler Calendar Date Entry

    Add ability to input more than one calendar date at a time. Could be as simple as adding a + sign for More dates. Could be presenting a scrollable date calendar dropdown or popup in the green screen that one could point and click multiple dates ov...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

    Save and Restore WPAR

    After restwpar, cannot exportvg as it didn't contain VG ODM along with, only /dev/... file which needs to be deleted manually. Customer don't want to do this way as there are 100+ of wpars and some datavg has a lot of LVs inside. If wrongly deleti...
    about 5 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

    Display the content of global variables

    When using global variables in (noMain) modules included in either programs or service programs, it is currently not possible to view the content of these global variables when debugging the (service) programs. Use Case: This new feature will help...
    over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Automated FS cleanup on VIOS (skulker, etc)

    From our original PMR (37280,101,616) regarding automated FS cleanup on VIOS: "Automated cleanup of unused files can be achieved via skulker. But this is not avaiable on VIOS in padmin environment. Also,it would need to be modified to suite VIOS's...
    about 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 4 Not under consideration

    RDI: Enable change of sources only in specific libraries

    In our source management system we have a source library for programs in production and a library for sources that are being changed. We copy the source from the source library to the development library when they are to be modified. You can only ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Not under consideration

    PowerVC to have native command support for quota management in a future release

    Our AIX environment consists of 2500+ LPARs on which has 100+ clusters. We need to collocation (anti-affinity) feature to support more than 25 rules to ensure that our cluster nodes are not on the same physical IBM hardware.I would like PowerVC to...
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Stop accidently IPL when using 8. Install program temporary fix package

    Prevent accidental IPL during installation of PTFS to be applied at a later date. Menu PTF option 8, "Install Options for Program Temporary Fixes" is used to install downloaded PTFS to the IBMi. The default option 8 is, "Automatic IPL . . . . . . ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 4 Not under consideration

    Screen Designer Indicator *On/*Off

    There appears to be a lack of functionality to show/hide items on the screen based on whether an indicator is *on or *off. It currently just overlaps the displays. Use Case: This is a feature used in SDA via the F6 key. It's a well missed feature.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

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