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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IBM i

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    Add license expiration to list of systems screen in Navigator

    I'd like to see the results of this sql: select license_expiration from qsys2.license_info where product_id in ( '5770SS1' ) and feature_id= '5050' and installed= 'YES' ; On each system in the dashboard view Suggested spot for result
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

    Merlin Try and Buy

    It would be great if IBM could provide "Try and Buy" or "FREE (limited)" version of Merlin.I need to evaluate the software before buy it.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Merlin 5 Delivered

    Add Applied Date to PTF Group Currency Service

    IBM i 7.6 included an enhancement to DSPPTFGRP command to show the date the PTF Group was applied. Please add this Applied Date to the IBM PTF Group Service.
    7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

    provide "between" operator in rpg expressions

    Provide "between" in rpg logical expressions Use Case: if a >=b and a<=c ;could be replaced by :if a between b and c;
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 11 Delivered

    System debugger in the "Tools" menu in ACS

    Today you have to open the "Run SQL Script" to start the System Debugger. This great when you work with stored procedures, however, this is counter intuitive if you debug other type of programs Use Case: Open IBM i ACS, Click Tools, Select the sys...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

    Allow expressions in CL CALL and CALLPRC commands

    Allow expressions to be used in the PARM parameter of the CALL and CALLPRC commands. This would eliminate the need to declare single-use variables to serve as parameters. Use Case: Instead of this: dcl &Limit *char (9) dcl &CODate *char (6...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 3 Delivered

    Additional CLI options for acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg /SYSTEM=<system>

    Request for enhancement to acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg /SYSTEM=<system> Please add cli options for additional settings, so that all system configurations can be set via the CLI for scripting. In short if there is an option in the GUI it should...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

    Add native 2FA and/or MFA for 5250 and other interfaces to data

    Data security insurance and other requirements are requesting Two Factor Authentication or Multi Factor Authentication access to data.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Delivered

    Autosave Run SQL Scripts

    A feature of some code editors (i.e. VSCode, SublimeText3) is the ability to restart the app and have it retain unsaved files and/or editor windows (code that is in an editor window but hasn't yet been saved to a file). This is a nice feature for ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 16 Delivered

    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...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Delivered

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