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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.

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.

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End-to-end FC SFP Diagnostics via Read Diagnostic Parameters (RDP ELS)

Background info Current-generation Fibre Channel adapters expose SFP transceiver diagnostics, which are readable from the OS.On IBM i, the fcioa -sfpinfo macro in SST/DST already surfaces this data.With the November 2025 GA of V7R5 TR7 and V7R6 TR...
14 days ago in AIX 13 Submitted

Exit point for QIBM_QSY_CHG_PROFILE Does not detect disabled profiles

The QIBM_QSY_CHG_PROFILE exit point does not have a trigger for when a profile is disabled due to to many invalid sign on attempts.
2 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

OpenSSH 10.x for AIX 7.2 / 7.3 / VIOS

Why this is a security requirement, not a version wish Post-quantum key exchange by default. OpenSSH 10.0 makes the hybrid ML-KEM key agreement the default and adds a warning when a connection falls back to a non-quantum-safe algorithm (WarnWeak...
5 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enhance the nvmesed tool to query and display the TryLimit value for each PIN

Right now there is no possibility to know how many retries are left to enter successfully a certain PIN (either user, admin or SID PIN) to unlock a NVMe SED drive. However, this information is available on the drive itself and could get queried an...
7 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Expose IBM i source-member edit interfaces for VS Code and IBM BOB ecosystem

VSCODE (code for IBM i)  need safe and fast source-member editing, but today we do not have a way to open, lock, save/update source member via these editors. In essence we need to: Issue an OVRDBF to the source file and member Issue a remote...
about 17 hours ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

Security Bulletins filtering search by IBM i products

Possibility to search by IBM i products (5770JV1, 5770DG1, etc.) when searching for the latest vulnerabilities instead of just "IBM i" will significantly improve the time needed for evaluation of necessary patching.
1 day ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Enable to search for PTFs by IBM i products and product options

Possibility of searching for PTFs by IBM i product (for example 5770DG1, 5733SC1, 5770BR2,5770WDS, etc.) and additionally product options (as some PTFs are only for specific options) would improve by searching for the latest PTFs which need to be ...
1 day ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Provide a way to query Db2 for IBM i members

Currently, using OVRDBF to direct SQL statements to a specific database file member is functional, but it is not an ideal solution. It requires an external override that is disconnected from the SQL statement itself, making the code less self-cont...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 11 Future consideration

Axis support for GZIP/deflate compression/decompression data

would like enhancement for Axis support for GZIP/deflate compression/decompression data
6 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

LPAR CPU Placement on mulit CEC systems

When you create an LPAR on a multi-CEC system, such as an E1080 or E1180, its placement is determined by its maximum virtual processor and memory configuration.If the system already hosts many smaller LPARs, a new LPAR may be placed across two or ...
about 1 month ago in Power Systems Design 3 Submitted