Skip to Main Content
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

IBM i

Showing 903

Omnifind Text Search management in New iNavigator or Access Client

The Omnifind Text Search Server management is missing in the Acces Client Database menu and the new iNavigator GUI. It would be very helpful for us to have a user friendly GUI to manage the Omnifind indexes.
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

ACS RSS SQL Formatting issue with (--) comments

The SQL formatting in ACS RSS version 1.1.8.4 build 0160 incorrectly format double dash (--) comments. The formatter indents these comments 5 spaces. I can understand if the -- comment does not start in position 1 but the auto comment tool puts th...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

XMLsec1 porting

add the port of the XMLsec1 utility Use Case: sign XML files directly from the IBM Power system
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

SOAP 1.2 for Webservice Client

IBM i - Webservice ClientDie Anbindung unseres DMS (Dealer Management Systems) an das B2B-Portal von Daimler basiert auf dem Austausch von SOAP 1.2 - Dokumenten via Webservice. IBM i unterstützt lediglich SOAP 1.1 im Bereich Webservice Client; ins...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Future consideration

Temporal Support For System Tables

V7R3 of Db2 i introduced support for temporal tables. However, it is not possible for an end user to alter the system tables; such as QADBXREF / QADBIFLD, to be defined as temporal. Attempting to alter the table results in the following error mess...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Smaller barcode size required in 5770TS1

System: Product 5770TS1Actor: Barcode size 0.007 required for barcode reader Description:Currently we are using a non IBM developed application for converting spoolfiles to PDF-Files. On most documents provided for our customers (for example: quot...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

GENUUID to previous versions

Add version 4 UUID in V7R2 onwards Use Case: Version 4 UUID's provide a far better chance of obtaining a unique ID. V7R4 has been announced with Version 4 UUID generation capabilities so we would like it to be implemented in previous versions if p...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration

Change default instance for LDAP tcp server

Hello, one of our lpars has the QUSRDIR2 instance working under the LDAP tcp/ip server, and due that, the LDAP server is in "stopped" status but that is not correct. May be there is a possibility to assign any instance as default for that tcp serv...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Future consideration

IBMi HTTP Server IHS support for website creation on IASP

Actual IBM i HTTP Server doesn't support the creation via GUI of a website defined in IASP, you have to create it on SYSBAS and then move it on IASP manually, doing tricky steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/706779 Could it be possible t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

iACS download source / name

The IBM iACS download source URL (https://mrs-ux.mrs-prod-7d4bdc08e7ddc90fa89b373d95c240eb-0000.us-south.containers.appdomain.cloud/marketing/iwm/platform/mrs/assets/DownloadList?source=swg-ia&lang=en_US) is not easy to understand and verify f...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration