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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    Add nmap to IBM i repository to be downloaded via ACS

    Hi IBM, can you add NMAP package to the IBM i repository? NCAT is part of NMAP and it will be useful to problem remote systems ports from IBM i
    27 days ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    Generate qualified data structures for *LOB sql data types

    When generating data structures for BLOB & CLOB SQL data types, use a qualified data structure instead of using the variable name with _LEN and _DATA appended. For example, Currently, for this field definition, DCL-S BLOBFIELD SQLTYPE(CLOB:160...
    27 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    ADMIN1 server environment to communicate with port 636 for SPNEGO

    IBM Navigator for i Single Signon, the configuration currently supports only 389 ports. Our environment we allowed only 636 LDAPS service. So our security team asked to use the 636 instead of 389 to configure iNavigator SSO.
    27 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Enabling an SQL query for the OVRFLW line of a spool file.

    It would be great if the OVRFLW line could be retrieved through an SQL query. With this attribute, spool files could be correctly duplicated from an application.
    27 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    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...
    29 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Provide *true & *false figurative constants for indicators

    To align with modern languages, please consider adding new figurative constants *true & *false for indicators.
    29 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Add "Deploy" Feature to BOB

    I would like Bob to support various Deploy features for the IBMi. As an example, after a successful compile of a program, I want the ability to distribute that program from Bob to a list of remote IBMi LPARs.
    30 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

    Add a special register in SQL triggers to get the schema of the underlying table, at any point, not just in error handlers

    In SQL DB2 for i, we would need the SQL triggers to provide a simple way to know the schema of the underlying SQL table of each trigger. It is important to have this data, especially when using library lists, because sometimes we need to pass this...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Native AIX syslog function should support encrypted logs when forwarding to a central syslog server

    In this day and age of OS security-awareness and its importance within operating systems (being available out of the box), critical OS logging functions such as syslog should support encrypting the logs if they need to be forwarded to a central co...
    about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Query a specific JVM via QSYS2.JVM_INFO

    To automate the monitoring of JVMs, one approach is to utilize QSYS2.JVM_INFO like this: SELECT * from TABLE(QSYS2.JVM_INFO(WAIT_TIME => 1)) WHERE JOB_NAME = '791185/JOBUSER/JOBNAME' Unfortunately, to get the values of a single JVM, this call m...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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