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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    Different Systems grouped in Taskbar ACS

    Hi, we want to seperate our different Machines in different symbols in the Taskbar in Windows 10. We have 3 symbols, one for the Austrian System, a second one for the Hungarian System and the third for our testing machine. When i click the first s...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    screen designer print in preview + read only

    Cannot choose print when in preview or read only. Use Case: Since one can only use the indicator settings when in preview mode it would be a nice feature to print a screen modification mock up with all a appropriate conditions set.
    over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

    Running ksysmgr as non-root

    ksysmgr need to be run by operator. Operator are not given root account access. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/670591 Setting up euid=0 for a script containing ksysmgr also does not work. Currently, there is an explicit check for the user ...
    over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

    Solution to input Chinese character in Win 10 to Power System I

    Due to the limitation of IBM emulator as Client Access (PC, i Access for Web, ACS) running in Win 10 (which provide only Unicode Chinese Input Method), we cannot input those chinese character that contains more than 2 bytes through those Client Ac...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Option to disable automatic selection of Restrict search to selection

    A previous RFE requested that RDi find text work like standard Eclipse find text. Part of that was the automatic selection of the "Restrict search to selection" checkbox if you have lines selected in the editor. I would like to disable that option...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    Inline code for SQL procedures/function

    Today you can use inline code in SQL procedures/functions with the "include" statement , but need to write the code in a separate file like this: call qsys2.ifs_write( path_name => '/tmp/main.c' , file_ccsid => 1208, overwrite => 'REPLACE...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Report Designer - easier, more intuitive way to add a record

    The steps to add a new record format to a printer file are not very intuitive in Design mode. I got tired of having to add the record format in Source mode and had to watch a video to understand how to do it in Design mode. Before watching the vid...
    almost 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    Keep multi-line DCL-S lines together when sorting

    The "sort" command does not take into account DCL-S code spanning mutliple lines even though we have to key the semi-colon as the line end marker. Unlike the previous D-specs in fixed form it "seems" like it should be easier to determine ALL the d...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

    Be sure a CPU a device is attached to is present in the LPAR

    When a device is attached to a LPAR, there is no guarantee that the CPU this device is attached to will be part of the LPAR. This leads to device with no specific numa node, confusing script managing irqbalancing like the Mellanox one and probably...
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Json datatype create table

    The idea would be to create a json datatype as happens in other dbms. This allows you to create fields in json type files (and not blobs as suggested in some documentation) while also verifying their actual validity.
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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