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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    Allow direct coding of nested data structures in free-form declarations

    The new free-form data declarations in RPG IV lend themselves to direct coding of true nested data structures. Allowing these to be coded directly would avoid having to code a lot of unnecessary templates that exist for no other reason than to nes...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Delivered

    Extend RPG compiler messages to support modern RPG naming

    The current design for the compiler messages does not support the enhancements to modernize the RPG language. When messages are returned to a client via the *EVENTF option, the replacement values for the messages are limited to legacy system names...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Delivered

    Port PHP rpm to PASE

    PHP is an open source development language. Every other platform other than the IBM i has the ability to install and use PHP by itself (sans Zend Server). IBM i is unique in this. I believe to be fair to customers, the option of installing PHP wit...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 12 Delivered

    Add SmartDR control functions to SRDF file sets for PowerHA

    Currently we have customer applications which have servers with PowerHA installed using SVC SAN storage. I am managing the migration from SVC SAN storage to EMC PMAX SAN Storage which includes a new feature called SmartDR (AKA MetroDR) fromDell-EM...
    over 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 3 Delivered

    Update RDi Eclipse to more current versions.

    The version of Eclipse that RDi and it's family of products uses is now way out of date. Neon is gone and yet our version of eclipse for RDi is from 2017. It's time to allow us to install Eclipse on our own, and then install RDi as a plugin. This ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 12 Delivered

    Enhancement to SELECT

    Currently there is no difference between a SELECT ... ENDSL block and an IF ... ELSEIF ... ENDIF block. I am not real sure why both are in the language. However, if the SELECT block had a "switched" format like the SWITCH block in C, that would be...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 13 Delivered

    Identify where in the code you are at.

    When editing or browsing through a source member in the LPEX editor, it would be helpful to know in what subroutine or procedure you are at. This would eliminate the need to find BEGSR Previous. SImilar to how the Show Date Area toggle works curre...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 14 Delivered

    AIX Fast I/O error recovery on redundant storage environment

    There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant SAN switches and redundant storage system. After apply IJ10537(included in AIX 7.2 TL2 SP3), almost 120 sec to recover I/O even set rw_timeout to mini...
    almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

    Service Entry Breakpoint conditionable on program variables.

    A service entry breakpoint is currently on conditional on the program/cmodule called and userid.This is insufficient if the there are many porgrams invoked under the same userid. What is required is the ability to set a break point based on the va...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

    SEA Traffic analysis - seastat

    Assuming we have 100 AIX LPARs served by 1 SEA and 20 VLANs , How can we interactively know which LPARs( or ip or mac) and VLANs are heavily consuming the SEA and its underlying physical adapter/s? VIOS seastat command gives huge amount of data wi...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 12 Delivered

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