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

My ideas: IBM i

Showing 151

SQL service: add functionality to view application definitions

Hello, we have this great table function CERTIFICATE_INFO table function - IBM Documentation we were wondering recently - would it be possible to to have a functionality to retrieve info on Application definitions / Services existing in DCM. Examp...
4 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. For the moment we have CERTIFICATE_INFO table function - IBM Documentation which ...
4 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
4 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Restrict Powerdown system command to run from Interactive environment

The PWRDWNSYS command is utilized within the environment to either shut down or restart the partition as necessary. This process is overseen by the technicians responsible for maintaining the platform. However, I have observed a potential security...
5 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
5 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Printer writer job is unable to recover after a preprocessed spool file is deleted unexpectedly

I observed that our writer job occasionally encounters the CPF6DF5 error after a temporary spool file is deleted in the output queue during preprocessing according to IBM Support. When this error occurs, all subsequent spools entering the queue ar...
6 days ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

Add OPEN *ALL to RPG to open all files not already open.

Files defined as USROPN or already closed must be opened manually and individually and code must make sure each file is not already open. OPEN *ALL would be the complement to CLOSE *ALL.
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add IMPORTANCE parameter to SNDSMTPEMM and API QtmsCreateSendEmail

On the old e-mail command SNDDST there was an option to change the content importance of the e-mail. It will add "Importance" to the mail header. Please add this parameter to the command SNDSMTPEMM and API QtmsCreateSendEmail.
14 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Modern Look for IBM Navigator for i Using IBM’s Carbon Design System

Updating the IBM Navigator for i interface by implementing the Carbon Design System (https://carbondesignsystem.com/)— IBM’s open-source design system built on the IBM Design Language. Carbon provides production-ready code, design tools, UX guidel...
18 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

RPG manual - %subst() start position and length in double bytes for graphic or UCS-2

The RPG manual needs a clarification for the %subst() build-in-function. For graphic or UCS-2 data the start position and length should be specified in double bytes. This is not documented.For the old SUBST operation it is only noted that the star...
19 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

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.