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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    Integration of iIBM i Access database functions into RD Power

    While bringing back the Database perspective was a step in the right direction, the IBM i Access database functions are much more complete, especially Visual Explain . I'd like to see the IBM i Access DB functions to be available as a plugin that ...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered

    Implement new %POS BIF to facilitate soft coding of DS overlays

    Currently if you want to redefine a portion of a Data Structure (usually as an array) you have limited choices. One approach is to manually key the names of all required fields into a DS and then overlay those fields with an array. This is tedious...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Delivered

    sendmail compiled with SASL support

    Need to interface with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple E-mail Service (SES), which requires login credentials / authentication to be encrypted. Neither sendmail or sendmail_ssl are currently compiled with SASL support; sendmail_ssl, if that remai...
    almost 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

    Add "in use" for stream files in iACS

    In IBM Navigator for i you can go into Integrated File Systems and see who has a lock on a stream file.I want that capability added in IBM i Access Client Solutions. Use Case: Trying to perform maintenance on a stream file but I cannot see who has...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

    IBM i ACS Run SQL Scripts copy/paste column headings

    Add the ability to copy and paste from the results including column headings.The ability to copy and paste the data from the results is very convenient. But without the column headings the data is meaningless in most cases.My workaround is to save...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

    Update outline view constantly

    The outline view should be constantly updated with the new information from the editor when the user changed the source code in the LPEX editor. At the momemt the user has to click the refresh button. But that should not be necessary at all for al...
    almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 22 Delivered

    Implement qsys2.Http_get for blob file

    I think then the new sql function for http_get are really interesting, fast and above all there isn't java! I started use it instead of systools funcion, but I need an http_get that allow me download binary files like .zip . Please implement it! M...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 10 Delivered

    To be able to specify the destination vios in the commands rrstartlpar and migrlpar

    To be able to specify the destination vios in the commands rrstartlpar and migrlpar, since, if in a same Power there are more than 1 pair of vios, these commands verify if the vlan's of the partition can be configured in all the vios servers and g...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

    Create XML in RPGLE, BIF like %XML-CREATE()

    In the Current world, IBM i is interacting with other systems by using the XML format messages which can be easily understood by different systems and humans. IBM has recently provided XML-INTO and XML-SAX built in functions to read the xml and to...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Delivered

    PowerVC manager should be available on SLES 12 LE on Power Systems

    So far the PowerVC Manager component is only running on a Redhat Linux partition on Power Systems. The client components are supporting other Linux distributions and AIX.
    about 9 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

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