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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IBM i

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    In RDI ability to exit program debug immediately as in F3 using green screen STRDBG

    Using green screen STRDBG, while stepping through any program using F10, if the developer presses F3 to exit, the program stops running immediately. This is a bit of a safeguard to many developers where they know they can end a job midstream. This...
    over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

    D-Spec Convert to Free Format

    It would be extremely helpful to be able to convert D-Specs into free format declarations. Use Case: It would allow the ability to copy code from non-free format sources into totally **FREE code by having it easily converted.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Omnifind Text Search management in New iNavigator or Access Client

    The Omnifind Text Search Server management is missing in the Acces Client Database menu and the new iNavigator GUI. It would be very helpful for us to have a user friendly GUI to manage the Omnifind indexes.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

    SQL Service qsys2.dns_lookup_ip() needs to return *all DNS name for given IP address

    the new SQL service qsys2.dns_lookup_ip() should return all the DNS names. currently if only returns the first one found for your given DNS setup. the DIG command does return all associated names
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    IBMi HTTP Server IHS support for website creation on IASP

    Actual IBM i HTTP Server doesn't support the creation via GUI of a website defined in IASP, you have to create it on SYSBAS and then move it on IASP manually, doing tricky steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/706779 Could it be possible t...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    Font Mapping for 5770TS1

    System: Power System/Post script printerActor: User needing new feature this process is directly sending the PDF file including 'WT Sans J' font. It is very useful because customer doesn't need PC on the way of Printer.The customer is printing car...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

    Webservices is not keeping RPG definition.

    The problem is the generation of webservices Webservices is not keeping rpg definition examples in the pmr 60857,200,838 It was open and I was told to redirect it to HTTP SVR for IThe before submit : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?u...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

    Need ability to monitor for CPF1220 (User &1 has reached device session limit)

    in the ever changing security conscience world we need to ability to monitor and report on potential unauthorized signon attempts. currently there is not method to capture this information Use Case: there needs to be a method to capture a potentia...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 10 Future consideration

    Show profile will be disabled msg even for non-valid profiles.

    OS 7.5 changed to provide the same error message when signing on for the case where a userid is not defined or a userid is valid but the password is wrong. This was intended to not 'leak' information to a bad actor that they guessed a valid userid...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    Allow journal entry read (RCVJRNE) and native DB I/O with field proc encoded data.

    Consider a field proc used for field level encryption. When replicating database activity, the data must be decrypted as it is being read from the journal. It then must be re-encrypted when it is written to the database. It would improve performan...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

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