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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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    make it possible to use regular expressions in HMC systems-view-panel search

    the HMC systems-view search is very helpful when working with a bigger number of sytems/LPARs/VIOS connected/managed to HMC.with the search you can reduce the view to the sytems/LPARs/VIOs you are planning to work with.this helps to speed up work ...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Global option to prevent cron from sending mail to users

    If a command in someones crontab generates output to stdin or stderr and is not redirected a mail is geneareted to the user who ownes the crontab. While this might have been a good idea 30 years ago, it can cause serious troube in modern environme...
    3 months ago in AIX 1 Submitted

    Add to OBJECT_STATISTICS a column to inform us if a library is an IBM library

    A new column would be added to OBJECT_STATISTICS called something like IBM_OBJECT. A value of 'YES' or 'NO' would be used.At present there does not appear to be an easy or definitive way of determining if a library belongs to IBM.SELECT OBJNAMEFRO...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Needs more information

    ENTERPRISE : Ajout de la possibilité de rétention des PDF dans l'IFS

    Bonjour, Suite à l'installation du 5770-BR2, nous mettons actuellement en place la partie Enterprise. Nous voyons que lors d'envoi des rapports par @mail que le processus passe par une création de PDF dans l'IFS dans l'arborescence /tmp/brms//Ente...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Needs more information

    Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

    With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

    Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Create a tool in IBM MCP Server that extracts the definition of a query and exposes it to AI

    Add a read-only tool to the IBM i MCP Server that retrieves the definition of an IBM Query for i *QRYDFN object and returns it as structured JSON. The response should include referenced files, joins, selected fields, result fields, selection crite...
    16 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 2 Submitted

    Enable multiple OUs on CSRs coming from the HMC

    Most PKIs are structured hierarchially with more than one OU, in our case it is not possible to sign a Certificate Request with only one OU via our internal PKI. Also: Self signed certificates will increasingly be banned in the future - which is a...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    ACS 5250 Font is too Small! Mocha much better.

    acs tool for System I has way too small Fonts for larger monitors. Its 2026 and we are still using small fonts. I really have to use Mocha, because they do such a great job. Its a beautiful Emmulator. With the unlimited money IBM has can't you jus...
    22 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Submitted

    RSEAPI - Add a "populate with CAs" operation to the security services.

    Hi, Would it be possible to add an operation to the security service that serves the same purpose as the "populate with CAs" option in DCM ?It might require two operations: the first to list the possible choices, and the second to import the autho...
    17 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

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