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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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Add support for signed certificate installation for PowerVC Appliance

PowerVC customers need to provide a signed certificate for accessing PowerVC UI, PowerVC Appliance does not provide a feature to import the customer signed certificates This can be manually circumvented by engaging support to PESH to install, howe...
3 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

upgrade HMC service-management-panel - dump-panel - to add IBM-support-case-no when calling-home a dump

It will ease up work with HMC-GUI to have an option to add the IBM-Support-case-no. to a dump-file when choosing " call-home dump ". This will give IBM-ECUREP the feature to right place the uploaded dump-file to the correct IBM-support-case unless...
29 days ago in Hardware Management Console 2 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

Allow attribute mapping for automount through LDAP

If using automount through LDAP, AIX's secldapclntd is hardcoded to use attributes 'automountMapName + automountKey' or 'nisMapName + cn'. Those are the only two options. An attribute map file should be allowed to specify different attribute names...
1 day ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add support to update PowerVC Fabric managed keys in the Appliance

PowerVC Fabric certificate replacement may require copying certifates into the trust store as well as manually copying to the PowerVC opt folders
3 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Allow MONMSG RMV(*YES)

When running CL programs, the joblog contains a lot of messages that are not relevant to the process. For example consider this code snippet below which leaves message cpf9801 in the joblog. On the other hand, `monmsg cpf9801 exec(do) RMV(*YES)` w...
4 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Have the host in the APis response

Hello,In RSEAPIs, you can connect to a host partition. Would it be possible to have at the start of jsons in response to operations the host on which the action took place : {"host": "localhost", ....} or {"host": "MyHost", ....} Depending on the ...
5 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

NIM client to allow you to specify the IP address to use for NIM configuration, and support multiple IP addresses on an interface

Currently NIM only allows you to specify the network interface when running 'niminit', not the IP address on that interface. This legacy design was OK until the recent NIM SSL security fixes - where NIM is now making assumptions to use the first I...
5 days ago in AIX 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.
10 days ago in IBM i / Networking 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...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted