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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Ideas

    Showing 3235

    Update QUSRWRK Subsystem to give customer the ability to assign an SSL Only Prestart Job Program (QZDASSINIT) & Remove the Non-SSL Only Prestart Job program (QZDASOINIT)

    Right now, certain interactions with Web Service Servers attach to the 2 Prestart Job entries for QZDASOINIT (Non-SSL). We do not allow any Non-SSL JDBC/ODBC Connections from outside of the IBM i in our Network. We do not think this current Presta...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

    JES2 $TA commands should be checkpointed so they survive IPLs or JES2 restarts

    JES2 automatic commands ($TA commands) do not survive IPLs or JES2 restarts. Many times, $TA commands are set to execute days into the future. If an IPL occurs before the set execution time, the target of the $TA commands never get executed. $TA c...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    Performance reports shows write cache overruns when controllers don't have write cache

    when your system is equipped with NVMEs without write cache the Performance Report shows actual a write cache overrun of 99,9%. Since there is no write cache that can overrun it should adress the report with "N/A", 'cause the 99,9% indicate a fail...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

    Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

    As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
    3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 34 Under review

    Provide support for Azure Local

    Client requests that our 9500 storage be supported for Azure Local
    4 days ago in IBM i / Hardware 0 Submitted

    Allow calculated values for CONST and INZ

    Currently, only hard-coded values ​​are allowed when initializing a variable or constant. dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(2147483648) ; dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(x'80000000') ; or dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SENT uns(10) inz(2147483648) const ; dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SE...
    18 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    enable interactive user and password authentication on sftp client

    It would be useful to have the same possibility that is present on all other Windows and Linux systems.
    18 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

    Automate add or update of Certificate instead of manual process in DCM

    A new process is being implemented reducing the number of days a certificate will be valid. Apple, Google and others are already implementing this. https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days In 2 week...
    11 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

    Enhance %CHAR to prevent full zero-suppression

    Today there is no way to generate a result when less than 1.00 that includes that first leading zero. As in '0.53'. The result is always '.53'. See code below (sorry I can seem to get embedded line-feeds to appear in this RFE): dcl-s sales Packed(...
    3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted
    248 VOTE

    Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

    Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.