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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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IBM i

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db2 for service to list file members (like QUSLMBR)

Processing file members with SQL is a pain. We should at least have db2 for i service to find out what members actually exist. Pretty much like the QUSLMBR API . Use Case: Process perfomance data using SQL. All tables in QPFRDATA are multimember t...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

SQL Plan Cache Filter option for Job

The Filters option in SQL Plan Cache has no option for entering job information like jobname and jobnumber. for analyzing the SQL Plan Cache and searching for the SQL statements initiated in that job, the searching takes much time and caused extra...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

iACS Java TEmp Folder for command STRPCCMD amendment

Platform: Windows 10 Enterprise x64Version iACS : 1.1.8.6Java: JDK 15.0 iACS PC5250 sessions with command STRPCCMD & execute the file transfer request in pre-defined DTFX file extension exception Use Case: Case 1: When user have using the iACS...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Variable renaming

Automatic renaming of a variable, datastructure, subprocedure, and other relevant items in all of its appearances Use Case: User renames a variable using a refactoring option such as the one available for java code. The renaming marks all the vari...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Navigator for i

Th UI in Navigator for i is not consistent. As different components have different developers, the way they design their applications is different. Selecting a date in a calendar is not working the same, which makes it annoying to use. Use Case: A...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

ACS RSS Position Found Word to Middle of View

When searching for words in RSS that are not currently visible (1.1.8.7-1100) positions the view to just show the word even though there can be quite a lot of additional text that is related. Please position the source to the middle or bottom thir...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Pipenv for IBM i

Pipenv is a tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds (bundler, composer, npm, cargo, yarn, etc.) to the Python world. It merges pip (which you support) and virtualenv (which it seams you currently don't), together to work in unison...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

Run SQL Scripts formatter semicolon moves to commented line

When using the SQL formatter on a section ending with a semicolon and the last line before it is a comment, it moves the semicolon to the end of the comment. It did not do this in version prior to Version: 1.1.8.4. I normally place the semicolon a...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

PDF Print Support In IBM/I

PDF has become the new standard for output for documents being stored in document management systems. It would be nice for IBM/I to be able to push print directly out to printers like it does with PCL. Use Case: PDF has become a big standard in to...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Delivered

Support UTF-8 source code in SQLC precompiler

The introduction of PTF SI62604 (which gives CRTRPGMOD the 'TGTCCSID' keyword and so allows RPG and SQLRPG modules to be compiled from Unicode stream files) now allows users to convert their source code to UTF-8 and store them as stream files in t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered