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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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Allow RDi to use saved ACS configuration.

RDi includes Access Client Solutions (ACS), but it doesn't allow you to use a saved configuration (e.g. 5250 .HOD file). This limits the usefulness of this tool
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Add Preview option on HMC Update before committing to the update

The current HMC V10R3.1060.3 does NOT allow for a Preview/confirmation when starting an HMC Update task. The user enters the HMC iso file location/user credentials and then offers only the "Next" command to begin the upgrade without confirmation o...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

DATA-GEN multi types (polymorphic) during serialization possibility

Handle cleanly new modern APIs that allows for multiple "types" (say mainstream Microsoft Graph API ) usually inside an array (i.e. array of different things to attach to a chat message etc.). JSON doesn't restrict particulars types in - say - arr...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Under review

Improved method to securely verify AIX filesets and install images

Currently, the only way to securely verify AIX filesets is during an install operation with the chsignpolicy command set, but even this requires installing the bos.rte.install and bos.dsc filesets in order to obtain the fileset signatures. AIX sho...
over 1 year ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Provide capability to restrict use of Global Variables in Subprocedures

Provide a capability to restrict access to global variables from local subprocedures. This could be done by adding a keyword to the dcl-proc specification that lists the global variables permitted for a given subprocedure. For example: dcl-proc My...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 18 Future consideration

IBM i SSO authentication against Azure Global AD

Actually, a valid Network Authentication service and EIM configuration permits to use SSO on IBM i through different Windows AD realms for the users to authenticate to the IBM i using their windows usernames. New times requires new technologies fo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Please add the Java Modernization Tools for RPG and COBOL into RDI 9.8 like RDI 9.6 with the tools option.

IBM Rational Developer for i RPG and COBOL + Modernization Tools, Java Edition V9.6 Core Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly (CJ2JVML) comes with many tools for exposing IBM i backend business logic to web based application written in Java for th...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Make "Memory Region Size" on a server dynamic

Recently, we encountered issues with Grub on Linux that it was not possible to use the standard 256MB memory region size on a server. We wish that the memory region size can be dynamic or defined per LPAR instead of a system wide setting, as chang...
about 1 month ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

Allow displaying LOB variables during debug without encountering exception

Currently while in debug if I mouse-over a LOB variable to see the value an exception occurs and the program returns to executing. This also happens if I forget to add "_data" to the variable name. Ideally, I'd like to see both the "_len" and "_da...
2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Is a defect

Enabling Port VLAN ID Update through VMRM DR using vNIC over SRIOV

Enable the automatic update of Port VLAN IDs during VMRM DR failover through HMC to ensure network access for virtual machines.
4 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted