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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    Merlin Try and Buy

    It would be great if IBM could provide "Try and Buy" or "FREE (limited)" version of Merlin.I need to evaluate the software before buy it.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Merlin 5 Delivered

    Autosave Run SQL Scripts

    A feature of some code editors (i.e. VSCode, SublimeText3) is the ability to restart the app and have it retain unsaved files and/or editor windows (code that is in an editor window but hasn't yet been saved to a file). This is a nice feature for ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 16 Delivered

    System debugger in the "Tools" menu in ACS

    Today you have to open the "Run SQL Script" to start the System Debugger. This great when you work with stored procedures, however, this is counter intuitive if you debug other type of programs Use Case: Open IBM i ACS, Click Tools, Select the sys...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

    Allow direct coding of nested data structures in free-form declarations

    The new free-form data declarations in RPG IV lend themselves to direct coding of true nested data structures. Allowing these to be coded directly would avoid having to code a lot of unnecessary templates that exist for no other reason than to nes...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Delivered

    IBM i ACS Run SQL Intellisense functionality

    Customers keep using WINSQL instead of IBM i ACS Run SQL scripts, because what Microsoft WINSQL offers them outperforms IBM i ACS Run SQL scripts functionality. With one big exception, WINSQL does not have the cancel option. Use Case: In the SQL s...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

    Add parameter for SEND_MESSAGE service that specifies Message Queue

    THE SEND_MESSAGE and LPRINT functions are nice, but many of us have message queue monitoring utilities and would prefer to pick where to send the messages to other than QSYSOPR. Notably, MS Copilot already claims the parm is there!
    8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

    AIX rsyslog compiled with omkafka (Kafka module)

    Addition of the Kafka module to AIX rsyslog. Request to compile AIX rsyslog with omkafka module because this is needed in our production and homologation servers in domain XRC (Customer Relationship applications)
    about 4 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

    Service Entry Breakpoint conditionable on program variables.

    A service entry breakpoint is currently on conditional on the program/cmodule called and userid.This is insufficient if the there are many porgrams invoked under the same userid. What is required is the ability to set a break point based on the va...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

    Add SQL Assist to Run SQL Scripts

    Add SQL Assist capability back into Run SQL Scripts. Use Case: In the old System i Navigator, (the predecessor to IBM i Access Client Solutions) there was an option to Run an SQL script when viewing tables or schemas. When the "Run SQL Scripts" wi...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered
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    Function to indent/format existing code similar to how "Source/Convert All to Free-Form" works now

    Would like to see a function to indent/format existing code. Could work similarly to how "Source/Convert All to Free-Form" works now, as well as "Convert Selection to Free-Form. on the context menu.This "Indent" function would naturally only apply...
    almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 24 Delivered

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