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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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.

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    "create type" with all characteristics like column table

    Improve the SQL "create type" command by adding the column header, the field text and all the possible features that are in a field of a table. In this way it would be possible to create the tables by simply referring to the "type" without definin...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

    AIX mksysb not work on rootvg disk with multiple paths

    1. Before backing up system we are required to run pprootdev fix . If you do not execute this command, backup process will fail right away.2. After running pprootdev fix, we back up host using mksysb;3. Because the AIX OS is not currently designed...
    over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

    Add CDRECORD & DVDRECORd to yum repositories

    Add the open source cdrkit (or cdrecord & dvdrecord) utilities to the IBM i yum repositories so that CD & DVD images can be built entirely on the i. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkithttps://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/ Use Case: T...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

    Additional ctrl-/ comment format option

    In free form RPG code (any kind), how about a commenting option for "place two slashes in front of the selected line(s) where the left-most line currently begins and shift the selected line(s) right 2 spaces". The lines are already shifted right 2...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Maintenance mode : Migration Evaluation upfront to detect failures and prevent canceling all migrations

    We would like to see the whole maintenance mode (also known as "evacuate mode") , check first if there are errors in the precheck and validation steps, and then put them aside if they are failed, and run the migrations of the good ones . At the sa...
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Hosted IBM i PWRDWNSYS integration missing

    When you have on an IBM i system a guest partition running IBM i, the vary on can start the partition. The vary off does not power down the partition in an orderly manner. When you run hosted Linux or AIX a vary of will shut the partition down in ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 5 Future consideration

    Create a new group that would allow limited administrator functionality on the GUI.

    I need a group that is able to perform limited administrator type functions from the UI.1) Reports Tab - Request and print all reports 2) Security Tab: a) View and drill down into rtc events making them searchable. b) Disable rtc configuration or ...
    over 7 years ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

    creation of folder in IACS

    Folders for Ibm Access Client Solutions Use Case: Would it be possible to create for Ibm Access Client Solution as for System i Navigator I some folders, this allowed to group the various connection by environment, instead of having all of the sys...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Proper Support for High DPI Monitors

    High DPI monitors almost always require running Windows 10 Scaling at 125% or higher. Nearly all native applications properly support this scaling. ACS does not. All icons and text become blurry as compared to other applications (because High DPI ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    Display Unicode variable in Screen Designer

    We are transforming character variable to unicode variable. If I want to change the screen in the DDS conception perspective on RDI, It doesn't show variable correctly CCSID(1200 *MIN). You have to go in the Source. No really friendly... Use Case:...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

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