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 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

    Additional CLI options for acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg /SYSTEM=<system>

    Request for enhancement to acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg /SYSTEM=<system> Please add cli options for additional settings, so that all system configurations can be set via the CLI for scripting. In short if there is an option in the GUI it should...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 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...
    almost 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

    New IBM i SQL Service to Retrieve Certificate Usage Information

    Need a DB2 SQL Service equivalent to API : Retrieve Certificate Usage Information (QYCDRCUI, QycdRetrieveCertUsageInfo) Use Case: We already have the CERTIFICATE_INFO table function, this would allow to know the certificates used (by DCM applicati...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

    Add native 2FA and/or MFA for 5250 and other interfaces to data

    Data security insurance and other requirements are requesting Two Factor Authentication or Multi Factor Authentication access to data.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 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

    Add an RPG refactor feature to add the ALIAS keyword to a file or data structure and handle all the renames

    Using the alias names for externally-described files or data structures makes the RPG code more readable. But it's difficult and error-prone to change an existing program to use the alias names instead of the short names, even using RDI's existing...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

    Support for CAA record types in bind, for AIX versions 7.1 and 7.2

    Customer requested about when will be available the support for CAA record types in bind, for AIX 7.1 and 7.2 versions. They can't use the CAA record type in the current versions of AIX.
    over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    Add an AIX linker option to specify SHMPSIZE

    As discussed in the Support case TS008099503, the ISV would like to be able to specify not only DATAPSIZE, TEXTPSIZE and STACKPSIZE as a linker option but also allow SHMPSIZE to be specified. Currently, if you build an application which should use...
    almost 4 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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