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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

    Showing 4924 of 4924

    Options for Freezing/Unfreezing of the Column Header in the SQL Results tab in RDPi

    In RDPi after going to the Data Perspective and connecting to a Database open the SQL Script. From the SQL Script firing an SQL statement the results are shown in the SQL Results view. While scrolling the result outputs the Columns Heading is also...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

    Run commands through debugger

    When using STRDBG on the green screen we can access a command line. That means that when we debug a program that was called in an interactive sesson, we are in the same job and cans see/change objects in QTEMP of the running program. We sometimes ...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

    Support DEC keyword to declare Decimal variables

    There is a need to support the DEC keyword when defining decimal variables in RPG IV. It would match both SQL and all other HLL on the system. I understand perhaps the implementation of FIXNBR(*INPUTPACKED) contributed to the decision to use Packe...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Enable customer to modify default login.html screen and put standard Mandated GOVT warning restrictions on it

    All Govt sites require login panels to display standard access restriction text - PowerVC is currently non-compliant
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Have the ability to change the login retries and if possible the suspended time of users.

    The default login retries for a user are 3 and then they are suspended for 5 minutes then the lock is released again. These settings do not meet our security standards. We would like to have ability to change the login retries and if possible the ...
    about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Labels on RSS results not accurate

    We would like the ability to change the labels on columns and have them reflect in our ACS SQL script results. We can change the labels now but the results still have the old label for the column so it does no good for us to be able to change the ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Automate Oracle migration from 12c to 19c using Ansible inside VM

    We have 1000+ Oracle 12c which normally demand for totally new environments (install 19c and do DB work) for migration work 12c to 19c. Allocating new environments (VMs) is time consuming and resource consuming (cost in labour and hw/sw) so I woul...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

    openstack services on multiple IP addresses

    Normally, openstack services are running on loopback interface - each service on its own port. Additionally, there's a Apache httpd server that acts as a reverse proxy - it listens on primary interface (probably eth0) and forwards requests to the ...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    acs search functionality for local files, using path designated

    Similar to search functionality within “file explorer”, allow search of ACS files/ scripts stored locally, using path designated. Useful when searching for technique or sql function previously saved.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

    AIX mksysb not work on rootvg disk with multiple paths

    1. Before backing up system we are required to run pprootdev fix . If you do not execute this command, backup process will fail right away.2. After running pprootdev fix, we back up host using mksysb;3. Because the AIX OS is not currently designed...
    about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.