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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    RPG Source compare for *functional* differences

    As many of us are doing these days, we are converting our old RPG 3, RPG ILE, etc. to 100% free RPGLE (**free) and making changes in VSCode. This is good. However, When you have to Peer Code Review your co-workers changes, it is extremely difficul...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted

    Adoption of GOLANG (GO Compiler) by Google in the ibmi-ioss supported within PASE

    Nodejs Open source applications are beginning to leverage the GO compiler to increase performance. These tend to be things like Angular, typescript etc.
    5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    Size decrease when downloading PTFs Groups

    Hello, My idea is simple. When downloading PTF group images, we would have option to upload some kind of PTF output file (which will tell fix central which PTFs are already on IBM i partition) which will be than processed on fix central and make d...
    5 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    IBM i AI Assistant (Like ChatGPT, But Specialized for IBM i)

    An intelligent assistant (CLI + Web + 5250 integration) that allows system admins, developers, and operators to ask natural language questions and get actionable, accurate, context-aware responses specific to the IBM i ecosystem. Command Explanati...
    9 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

    AI-Powered Job Log Analyzer

    A native AI assistant that watches job logs (QHST, QSYSOPR, etc.) and :- Summarizes errors in human-readable form Suggests fixes from IBM docs Flags recurring patterns or anomalies Helps users and improves system reliability. It’s not "mission-cri...
    9 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM 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.
    about 1 month 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.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    QMGTOOLS Option to Compare/Order Cross Reference PTFs Before an OS Upgrade

    In QMGTOOLS option 24, PTF menu, can IBM add an option to compare/order cross-reference PTFs when planning for an OS upgrade, like from 7.4 to 7.5?
    10 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Fail the compile when source information cannot be inserted into the object

    When a module is created, the source information is inserted into the object description. There can be a situation where the source cannot be allocated to fetch the information. Instead of failing the compile, the source information inside the obj...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 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.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

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