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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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IBM i

Add new parameter to SNDPTFORD to not add problem record

When a SNDPTFORD is used to download PTF's it automatically adds a new record to the problem list (WRKPRB). This requires a lot of effort to clean up as you have to close the problem and then wait a specified period of time before being able to go...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / PTF and Service Submitted

Expose IBM i source-member edit interfaces for VS Code and IBM BOB ecosystem

VSCODE (code for IBM i) need safe and fast source-member editing, but today we do not have a way to open, lock, save/update source member via these editors. In essence we need to: Issue an OVRDBF to the source file and member Issue a remote SQL SE...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i Submitted

Security Bulletins filtering search by IBM i products

Possibility to search by IBM i products (5770JV1, 5770DG1, etc.) when searching for the latest vulnerabilities instead of just "IBM i" will significantly improve the time needed for evaluation of necessary patching.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Enable to search for PTFs by IBM i products and product options

Possibility of searching for PTFs by IBM i product (for example 5770DG1, 5733SC1, 5770BR2,5770WDS, etc.) and additionally product options (as some PTFs are only for specific options) would improve by searching for the latest PTFs which need to be ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / PTF and Service Submitted

Exit point for QIBM_QSY_CHG_PROFILE Does not detect disabled profiles

The QIBM_QSY_CHG_PROFILE exit point does not have a trigger for when a profile is disabled due to to many invalid sign on attempts.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Enhance WRKJOB by adding an option to display the currently executing SQL statement and execution details for a selected job.

Many IBM i administrators and support teams rely on WRKJOB as the primary green-screen interface for monitoring active jobs. However, when investigating performance issues, resource consumption, or long-running database activity, it is often diffi...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS Under review

Axis support for GZIP/deflate compression/decompression data

would like enhancement for Axis support for GZIP/deflate compression/decompression data
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

AI-Powered Business Rule Change Simulation and Golden-Behavior Validation for IBM i Applications

I propose adding an AI-Powered Business Rule Change Simulation and Golden-Behavior Validation capability for IBM i applications to help development teams verify that application changes preserve intended business behavior while enabling controlled...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

monitor the status of the qinter subsystem devd table before it fills up and crashes by reporting the CPI146F.

Deleting unused devds may not result in the subsystem table being reclaimed; this is known but is not treated as an error; it simply is.I believe it is necessary to know how busy this table is in order to plan a restart of the subsystem before the...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS Under review

allow migration of IBM i loadsource without downtime

You can easily migrate IBM i LPARs from one Power Server onto another one without downtime currently. You can also add/remove disks to either system or independed ASPs without any downtime. But once it comes to loadsource you need to IPL system do...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Storage Submitted