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

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    Automation workflows and disk initialization.

    Automation demands for initiating disks as part of workflow. Today I deploy IBM i LPARs/VMs with disks using Ansible - PowerVC. The work here runs well until the IBM i VM is running and all disks are visible. However I cant initiate the extra disk...
    about 7 hours ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Align system admin work and automation for IBM i with AIX/Linux.

    Within HMC, partitions (ibmi) console gives "No action available". Since the "IBM i access client solutions" can connect via HMC and get terminal I would like to have some kind of terminal direct frominside HMC as for AIX and Linux. It doesnt have...
    about 7 hours ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    CHKEXPBRM don't show local partition content

    Hello !!! This command, CHKEXPBRM, lacks a specification for which machine/partition, SYSNAME, it should check for tapes; currently, it identifies all available tapes across all machines/partitions—a total of 8—whereas XXXX requires only one tape ...
    11 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    Administrator Activity logs in GUI

    As a PowerVC Administrator, I would like to have a dedicated Administrator Activity Logs feature in the PowerVC GUI portal to view and monitor all activities performed by administrators and users, including configuration changes, user management, ...
    about 6 hours ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Personal Medical-Visit Record Organizer for Injury Documentation and Compensation Claims

    PROBLEM: After an injury, a person's medical care is spread across emergency visits, follow-ups, and different providers, and the paper trail — visit dates, provider names, test results, bills, and records requests — is easily lost. Without an org...
    about 19 hours ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care 0 Submitted

    Civilian Police Oversight Board Policy-Review Records System

    PROBLEM: Civilian police oversight boards review department policies and procedures and keep minutes, findings, and recommendations as public records, but those records are scattered across meeting agendas, ordinances, and city systems, so the pub...
    about 19 hours ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) 0 Submitted

    Title: Transform Services (WSCST *PDF) ignores DDS UNISCRIPT: Arabic, Hebrew and Indic text is unreadable in the PDF but prints correctly

    Idea description DDS printer files support complex scripts through UTF-16 fields (CCSID(1200)) with TrueType fonts (FONTNAME) and the UNISCRIPT keyword. UNISCRIPT gives shaping, bidirectional ordering and normalization (ICU, 5770-SS1 option 39), a...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

    AFP to PDF on IBM i: pass JPEG images through unchanged as is and second store each image once per document

    IBM i applications create PDF documents from AFPDS spooled files in two ways: Transform Services, through CPYSPLF ... WSCST(*PDF) or OVRPRTF WSCST(*PDF); PSF with PDF output (CRTPSFCFG/CHGPSFCFG PDFGEN), which uses the Infoprint Server IPDS-to-PDF...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

    UNIVERSAL ADVANCED HIV, AIDS & STI PREVENTION, TREATMENT, MARRIAGE AND GLOBAL RELATIONSHIP PROTECTION INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM Submission Type: IBM Ideas – Healthcare Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Public Health, Medical Research and Digital Health Infr

    UNIVERSAL ADVANCED HIV, AIDS & STI PREVENTION, TREATMENT, MARRIAGE AND GLOBAL RELATIONSHIP PROTECTION INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM Submission Type: IBM Ideas – Healthcare Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Public Health, Medical Research and Digital ...
    1 day ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care 0 Submitted

    Graficos creado en Navigator for i puedan ser consultados por otros

    los Gráficos que se creen en navigator for i, puedan ser compartidos para que otros usuarios los puedan consultar, adicional a ello si el gráfico tuvo algún cambio llegue una alerta a un correo.
    1 day ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

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