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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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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.

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IBM i

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SSL/TLS Enable IBM Fix Central Java (JNLP File) PTF Downloads

IBM Fix Central's Java (JNLP) Downloads currently use Non-secure TCP Ports 8470 thru 8476 on the Target AS400/iSeries. We're in the process of locking down Non-secure TCP Ports in favor of their corresponding SSL/TLS Ports 9470 thru 9476. We canno...
4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Add commands that can be used to automate managing PDF MAP Entries. ADDPDFMAPE, CHGPDFMAPE, DLTPDFMAPE.

Currently to manage PDF MAP Entries the WRKPDFMAPE command must be used interactively which makes automating this process using CL commands not possible. The QPQAPME API could be used but there is significant work in developing this process, the u...
5 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Submitted

Provide a system-level iconv table for SYSVAL(QCCSID) to CCSID(1208) and CCSID(1200) Cached

As part of our ongoing efforts to optimize character encoding conversion in C and C++ applications on IBM i, we are currently utilizing a multi-step process to handle conversions between the JOB CCSID (an EBCDIC CCSID) and UTF-16 (CCSID 1200). Spe...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
6 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

COBOL SQL Precompiler able to use Host Variables using LIKE and SQL commands allowed in Copybooks

Hi Jeff, Development reviewed the information you sent in and provided the following feedback: Thanks for providing examples to illustrate your questions. Unfortunately, both of the examples provided are not supported by the SQL COBOL precompiler....
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

Enable Headless Execution for Interactive Green Screen Commands on IBM i

Idea Summary : Introduce a capability to run interactive green screen commands (like WRKSBMJOB, WRKUSRJOB, WRKACTJOB, etc.) in headless mode, allowing scripts and automation tools to execute and retrieve results without requiring a 5250 terminal s...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

ACS SQL実行結果を多段表示に

Access Client Solutions の スキーマ > SQLスクリプトの実行 機能について。 複数のSQLスクリプトを同時に実行した際の、実行結果についてです。 現在の Ver. 1.1.9.7 では、それぞれの実行結果タブが1行で表示され、1行で表示しきれないタブは矢印ボタンで探す必要があります。 以前の Ver.1.1.8.8 では、それぞれの実行結果タブが多段で表示され、1行で表示しきれないタブは上下に全て表示されていました。そのため、探したい実行結果を探す操作が必...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Add IMPORTANCE parameter to SNDSMTPEMM and API QtmsCreateSendEmail

On the old e-mail command SNDDST there was an option to change the content importance of the e-mail. It will add "Importance" to the mail header. Please add this parameter to the command SNDSMTPEMM and API QtmsCreateSendEmail.
3 months ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Change IBM ACS 5250 Console Verify to only check port 2301 when Encrypted Console Selected

The default behaviour of the HMC v10 code is to no longer allow unencrypted 5250 Console session via Port 2300, for compatibility reasons ACS still needs to offer this unencrypted connections so that cannot and should not be removed. However, the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Add Transfer Data Rate to ACS IFS file Upload/Download interface

The addition of a Data rate transfer information is useful telemetry data for IBM i SysAdmins and Networking specialists. The addition of this calculation (in addition to the simple percentage complete) data would help to monitor, diagnose and res...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted