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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IBM i

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    Add the autostart option to all IBM i Debug Servers and Debug Service

    Currently in Navigator for i the TCP/IP server System Debugger consist of 3 instances the System Debugger, IDE Debugger Server and Debug Service. Unfortunately the Debug server is not available in the Navigator for i TCP/IP Configuration Propertie...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    norwegian language in R760 or at least as a secondary language

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    30 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    BRMS - Drive utilization

    Actually we have TS4300 library connected to our IBMi LPARs. For backup planning we are using simple Drive utilization chart, which shows how many drives was used at given time in specific day in a past. We have only 4 drives and don't want to exc...
    16 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    Provide system generated CPW usage for an LPAR

    Whenever we need to find CPW for an LPAR, we have to jump around and gather information from numerous places.We need an OS command which would provide that calculation for us. Currently we have to gather system information including Power System m...
    18 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

    With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    When the Java virtual machine cannot be created, provide more information in joblog

    When invoking java from a RPG program, and an error occurs that causes the JVM creation to fail or not complete, there is usually a spool file generated that contains stderr content. In my case, the joblog contains a QJVM1164 message, but that did...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

    Enable Kerberos for secondary 5250 session

    The ACS configuration allows for using Kerberos when opening a new ACS session and it automatically signs the user in. When the user does a SYSREQ 1, a signon screen is presented for a secondary job for the same session. For security purposes, man...
    18 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Provide a method to automate Configure TLS for an HTTP server

    I have written an application to automate the Let's Encrypt process for issuing and renewing certificates. I would like to automate the process of assigning a JavaKeyStore to the Admin5 HTTP server. In addition this would be useful for others who ...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

    DISPLAY_JOURNAL and excluded access objects

    DISPLAY_JOURNAL fails when I choose to use *ALLFILE for OBJECT_NAME if it attempts to display the journal details for a file I do not have access to view. Either make DISPLAY_JOURNAL always auto skip the process for files user has not access and r...
    19 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Add support for Java 21 to IBM i

    Java 21 is needed so we can use new features also on IBM i. It will enable IBM i community to run applications that requires java 21. Java 21 (IBM Semeru) is already available for other platforms.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Submitted

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