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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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Create a "Code for IBM i" Extension for JetBrains PyCharm (similar to the one for Visual Studio Code)

Currently, the "Code for IBM i" extension is available for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers working on IBM i to benefit from a modern and integrated development environment. However, many developers also use JetBrains PyCharm for their proj...
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

Removal of 4-Core Limit for IBM-i VMs on the S1022 / S1122

Description: As a forward-thinking organization leveraging IBM-i on the S1022 / S1122 server, we are consistently seeking ways to enhance performance, optimize resource utilization, and meet our increasing workload demands. In light of this, we su...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 10 Under review

Allow scheduled tasks in HMC schedule management to be edited

When you have created a scheduled Task like "backup profile data" or "backup HMC data" it os only possible to view or delete the Task. So if you want to Change the schedule to a new time oder date, you have to delete and receate the Task. It would...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

Run SQL Scripts: Remove redundant variable prompting

When prompting for multiple substitution variables with same name, only prompt once.
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

Support for Ubuntu in PowerSC

Ubuntu is growing in the opensource community and we cant connect to that Linux distribution using uiAgent rendering in customer need to use another tool or 2 different solutions when running on power.
19 days ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

AIX Toolbox needs feature parity with RHEL.

By not having a fat FOSS layer, IBM is self-selecting AIX out of consideration for the vast majority of ISVs out there. Note that I have nothing but praise and respect for the team that is keeping the Toolbox alive on a shoestring budget, but they...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted
310 VOTE

*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

Extend the QCMDEXC SQL procedure and function to log the CL command run

Many SQL programmers using the QSYS2.QCMDEXC procedure and function are logging the CL command specified as parameter to the procedure / function, often to the joblog by calling SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF, just before calling QCMDEXC. The idea is to have QC...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration
132 VOTE

Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
9 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted