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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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Provide a C/C++ "API" or function to enable reading Deleted records from a database file.

Now that the system is "closed" we can't use our old ways to do certain things. There needs to be a way to go out to a database file record and programmatically "undelete" that record. That is, say I'm going to open file ABC using the open or fope...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Web service REST - JSON

Good evening,I created through Web Administration for i, a rest service that receives a parameter containing a JSON string, with numerous defined keys. The web service is associated with a rpg service program, which receives the JSON parameter con...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Future consideration

Add the ability to create/save/and use Library Lists

Users of RDi generally work on more than one product need an easier way to manipulate the Library List. While adding a new Library List view will help, users want the ability to create, save, and use those library lists. This will speed productivi...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

Reload in Apache

Apache has functionality called graceful restart. It allows for reading in a new config without having all the connections dropped. Typically on other OS you could run something like apachectl -k graceful (or the service manager equivalent). Havin...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Future consideration

Getting the response as a stream from the HTTP functions in QSYS2

The HTTP functions wait until the entire response has been received before returning it. Returning the response as a stream, without waiting for it to be complete, it would result in better performance particularly with very large responses.
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Save Results Sets to the IFS

Enable the 'Save Results' feature of Run SQL Scripts to save the output to the IFS of the connected server. This enables data extracted to be kept on the originating server e.g. for data security purposes and for environments where users are not a...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

Add user registry and TAI to RSE APIs

Hello, Concerning the use of Remote System Explorer APIs (RSE API), we currently use basic authentication + a session. This opens up many possibilities (IFS access, SQL queries, CL command calls, etc.) to all users (within the limits of thei...
8 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

Make pytorch available for install from ACS/Open Source Package Managment.

It would be much more practical, and much easier to install pytorch/ppc64 from a well known place. As for now, it's really hard to find instructions of where and how to install a version of pytorch, built for the Power PC architecture.
5 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

For a procedure returning a varchar, writing "return *blank;" should be the same as writing "return '';"

Writing: dcl-s result varchar(500); dcl-proc GetErrorMessage;dcl-pi *n varchar(500);end-pi; return *blank;end-proc; result = GetErrorMessage(); //=> result = '[500 times space character]' is not the same as writing: dcl-s result varchar(500); d...
8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Provide a PowerVC CLI which can be used to generates a file with a list of users and roles for MongoDB and MariaDB

provide a PowerVC CLI which can be used to generates a file with a list of users and roles for MongoDB and MariaDB.
3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted