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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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RBAC for PowerHA and AdminDomain

It would be helpful to provide product level security where not everyone can access administrative tasks. View access vs. Admin access.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Advanced Job Scheduler - Increase job group size from 99 to 999 (# of jobs included in a group) (or at least more than 100)

We currently use a non-IBM job scheduler that frequently has over 100 jobs in the job grouping. We would like to use AJS to replace this product, but one of the limiting factors is only 99 jobs are allowed in a group.
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

IBM needs to identify access paths for self-training on IBM i

Free access IBM i systems like PUB400.COM have up to the present been critical in the community at providing venues for self-training in IBM i. I and others in the community consider it absolutely necessary that such venues continue, and the IBM t...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

Add additional metrics to i Navigator System Monitors.

Currently there is a list of metrics to choose from to setup a System Monitor. When a monitor threshold is set and exceeded a command can be run. The idea is to add additional metrics to System Monitors list to choose from like Object Lock content...
3 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

ACS Spool File Download Options

Be able to include the USRDTA in the file name when downloading a spoolfile to your local computer. The user data can mean something and it would be nice to be able to include that as part of the PDF file name.
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Enhancing network performance analysis on IBM i with iPerf Integration

iPerf (iPerf - The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool) is a widely used command-line tool designed for measuring network performance by generating TCP and UDP traffic between two endpoints. It allows network administrators, engin...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

RCVJRNE support journal entries QJORDJE5 Record Format (*TYPE5)

System monitoring for many audit journal type to got relate IP information to determinate security issue
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Environment Branding Options for IBM Navigator for i landing page.

Being able to tell at a glance the partition or environment you are signing into from the IBM Navigator would be immensely helpful in preventing adverse actions or changes in the wrong environment. Even changing the standard color scheme would be ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted