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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    Integrated File System tool: Allow us to change the size of the font

    In ACS's Integrated File System tool the font is too small. I want to be able, like I can in other ACS tools, adjust the size of the font.
    4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Allow ACS to be updated manually within RDi

    Allow ACS to be updated manually within RDi so the latest version can be used. Alternatively, allow users to link an existing version of ACS to RDi to be used instead of the built in version.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

    Run SQL Scripts: Remove redundant variable prompting

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

    Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

    There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
    7 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    ACS IFS - resolve correctly "well known locations" to the real physical folder

    Talking about Windows, ACS seems to not respect the client setting, assuming that the position of well known folders is fixed in a system. For example in ACS IFS browser, Edit-Preferences-Download Location is set to "Downloads folder". ACS assumes...
    6 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Run SQL Scripts: Remember previous prompted variable values

    Related to IBMI-I-4640, when using prompted variables, have iACS RSS remember the previous values and present them in a combo box for each variable. This would make running the same query multiple times much easier when you can select previous val...
    2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

    `xargs` should support `-0`/`--null` parameter

    xargs on AIX currently does not implement -0. While this is not part of the POSIX standard ( AFAIK, please check), it is implemented by every other implementation, including FreeBSD's. While the OSS toolbox's implementation /opt/freeware/bin/xargs...
    12 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Add ability to open SQL scripts from github

    Hello, We store a lot of our custom SQL scripts in Github nowadays, we would find it useful to have ability to open scripts from Github repository. Run SQL Scripts > File > Open > PC File / IFS Stream File / Source Physical File + Github ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Modernizing WPAR Technology in AIX (Linux-like Containerization)

    I would like to address the future of containerization in IBM AIX. Since the proposal for "Docker on AIX" did not receive approval, I suggest an alternative approach: investing in the development of WPAR technology to align it with modern containe...
    8 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    Add documentation option to a SQL service in RSS

    VS code has the brilliant option when hovering over a SQL service in a SQL request it allows you to search IBM documentation for this specific SQL service. This idea is about adding the same kind of functionality to ACS RSS if possible.
    25 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

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