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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Power Advanced Toolchain support

Advanced Toolchain is unsupported, therefore not desirable/usable for Banking. Add support (similar to IBM Elite support, to IBM PowerAI Enterprise, which is already a package heavily based on services of open sourcehttps://developer.ibm.com/linux...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Background IBM i search to populate Search Results view as search progresses

Since version 8.5.1 we can now run the IBM i search in background and work on other things.However the Search Results view is updated only at the end of the search. I'd like it to update it as the search progresses. Sometimes when searching, we ar...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Allowed to access python on HMC through the CLI

Allow access to python on the HMC. We would like to use our ansible server to automate certain tasks on the HMC. From the CLI it looks like I cant access it when I run python --version. It seems to be out there ls -l /bin/python*lrwxrwxrwx 1 root ...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

Cleanup after a remote restart of a VM when a system profiles are restored from backups

Assume that a running system was failed completely loosing its profiles and running VMs were remote restarted by PowerVC to other running systems. In above case, after the failure loosing profiles and VMs are relocated auotmatically. When the fail...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Make hairline cursor a preference - always on

I would like to not have to turn on the 'hairline cursor' function each time I load a source member into the LPEX editor. It would be nice if I could set that as a preference so that it will always be on. Use Case: This feature would be used in LP...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

Add Searchlight in PowerVC

Searchlight dramatically improves the user focused search capabilities and performance on behalf of various OpenStack cloud services. Searchlight was originally developed and released in the Kilo release of Glance. It would be a great improvement ...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

i Access for Windows for Vietnamese Language

Currently, i Access for Window is only allowed to input Vietnamese language using the Windows keyboard setting which is VNI method. This method is not commonly used in Vietnam as it used combination of numeric and symbol for Vietnamese accent. It ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Allow LPAR ID modification during Novalink Recovery partition data process

The current Novalink recovery process has been created to accommodate the recovery of a physical server from a Novalink only managed deployment and greenfield clients who are fine with not implementing internal standards. This recovery process is ...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

Debug view obscures edit view when in full-screen

When in debug, double clicking the editor tab maximises the source code view. This completely fills the screen; no other views are visible. When stepping through the program, the debug view re-appears and obscures the top part of the source code. ...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

RDp to handle special character in RPG

Unfortunately there is no solution at this time. The EBCDIC control characters used in the green screen environment have no specified visual representation in Unicode and it is left up to each operating system to decide how to render them. RD Powe...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

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