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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

Have an early indicator when a save is approaching near system limits

​The system i currently lacks a proactive warning for backup job approaching backup limits. Without proactive alerting, unexpected backup outage would occur.
about 9 hours ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted

Adding the option to specify a Sender address to the command SNDSMTPEMM

For years now IBM i lacking a command to specify the sender mail address in a simple manner. Yes there is an API but this is too complicated for the average IBM i developer. Would it not be very convenient if the current SNDSMTPEMM is enhanced to ...
15 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

IBM i: Add a new system value so we can enable to create automatically $HOME directory on User Profile creation

Today we use SSH, SFTP and VSCode more often than in the past, but when creating a new user profile the /home/USERID directory is not created. Please, add a new system value to enable automatic creation and select the $HOME base directory, in case...
28 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Add a new category under IBM Navigator for i, with the ability to plug in user-defined SQL for result sets and charts, similar to way system info is presented.

This idea would allow system admins to build up a list and provide useful site-specific, SQL inquiry/review capability for their users, via custom SQL queries. Whether these are configured in the IFS or some other place, is fine. But it should be ...
7 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Add Multiple Result Tabs to Run SQL Scripts

I often need to run multiple queries in different tables to analyze and compare results. For every query I run, the existing results are cleared and the new results are displayed. I would like the results to be retained until closed. I would sugge...
8 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 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...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

RSEAPI - operation DELETE api/v1/admin/sessions

Hello, Is it possible to add the host and token as optional parameters, just like the username?All parameters could be combined.These new parameters would have a default value of *ALL. These additions would allow, for example : removing all connec...
23 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 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.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Networking Submitted

Add the Prestart Job Reuse count to the job data in Collection Services

QSYS2.Active_Job_Info returns the prestart job reuse count. However, to review this you must use DETAILED_INFO => 'ALL' and you can only get a real-time snapshot. I would like this metric added to the Collection Services job data so this can be...
15 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

"With" opcode for RPG nested data structures, like VB's "With...End With" statement.

Referencing deeply nested data structure variables is a chore in RPG and the RPG code becomes verbose. Visual Basic has a statement "With ... End With" that "Executes a series of statements that repeatedly refer to a single object or structure so ...
15 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

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