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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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Filtering source files and source file members in the i Project

We would like to be able to filter on source files and source file members within the i Project. As RDi is supposed to be a replacement for PDM this is a loss of feature. Use Case: We are using RDi in combination with SVN so our aim is to remove s...
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

CRTDUPOBJ command update a status file or periodically send a message to the job log that indicates the percent complete

There isn't an interface to the CRTDUPOBJ command that allows us to monitor the status, nothing found in Advanced analysis too, So have the CRTDUPOBJ command update a status file or periodically send a message to the job log that indicates the per...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

Automation to activate / deactivate RPV server & client devices for PowerHA/XD managed GLVM VGs before after FS related tasks.

PowerHA/XD handles the RPV server & client devices on it's own. After the resource group take over has been completed, PowerHA/XD will: - unconfigures the RPV server devices (puts them to defined state) belonging to the RG's volume groups on ...
over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

Virtualization of crypto on AIX

Virtualization of crypto adapter for System p similar to what System z has today.
about 10 years ago in AIX 6 Not under consideration

High Availability for PowerVC integrated Software defined Networking for Novalink

IBM PowerVC Software Defined Network (SDN) is designed as a neutron service running on novalink managed power systems, that service on novalink is not monitored by novalink and has no redundant service, as such any service outage event of the neut...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Find/Replace (CTRL-F) regular expressions in RDP (LPEX) should match the help text "regular expression patterns".

Using the regular expressions for find/replace in the LPEX editor on RDP is confusing. The help text clearly shows that the regular expression patterns should use the details described in the java.util.regex.Pattern javadoc but there are differenc...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

[IGNORE: Already AVAILABLE] Provide a high-speed API to materialize info about a specific PTF

The QpzListPTF API and the SQL PTF_INFO VIEW are fine for non-critical applications. However they perform far too slowly for in-App use where the App simply needs to check if a specific PTF has been installed/applied. Today we have to matieralize ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

Having a command to close automatically the Run SQL Scripts windows in ACS after an UPDATE

I use a .bat file to run automatically and SQL script (UPDATE) but when it's done, both CMD's window and « Run SQL Scripts » program remains open. I found a way to overcome using a taskkill for "acslaunch_win-64.exe" into the batch file, but a com...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

QID 11 Hidden RPC Service

QID = 11 Title=Hidden RPC Service Severity=2Impact = Unauthorized users can build a list of RPC services running on the host. If they discover vulnerable RPC services on the host, they then can exploit them.Threat= The Portmapper/Rpcbind listens o...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

WebQuery Output selection

we want to have an option to disable or remove the "Excel Formular" and "Excel Formular (xlsx)" from the User Output Selection. In WebQuery Adminconsole is no option to disabe this. Use Case: we want to have an option to disable or remove the "Exc...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 4 Not under consideration