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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    Allow %ERROR to evaluate a TEST operation directly

    Currently, validating a date, time, or timestamp value requires a TEST operation followed by a separate check of %ERROR: test(DE) *ISO rawDate;if %error; // The value is invalidendif; I would like %ERROR to support evaluating a TEST operation dire...
    about 13 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    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...
    4 days 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...
    4 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Native IBM i Monitoring for NGINX Through SQL Services and IBM Navigator

    As more IBM i customers modernize their applications using web technologies, NGINX is increasingly being used as a reverse proxy for web applications running on IBM i. While NGINX provides logging and monitoring capabilities, accessing this inform...
    about 1 hour ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Supply-Chain Update Hijack Disclosure Record

    PROBLEM: On November 4, 2026, ESET Research disclosed that the group it tracks as SlippyNunchucks hijacked DNS for Sogou Input Method's brand-promotion configuration requests — sent over insecure HTTP — and substituted a malicious configuration. T...
    about 2 hours ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care 0 Submitted

    Modular Trojan Module Registry

    PROBLEM: TrickBot was not one program — it was a platform. Its operators downloaded specialized modules on demand: injectDll for man-in-the-browser web injections against financial portals, pwgrab for stealing browser, email and remote-desktop cre...
    about 2 hours ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care 0 Submitted

    Add Native CDATA Support to SQL/XML Functions

    We would like to request native support for generating XML CDATA sections using SQL/XML functions in Db2 for i. Currently, SQL/XML functions such as XMLELEMENT automatically escape special XML characters, making it impossible to generate CDATA sec...
    about 8 hours ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Add Support for *USERASCII Printer File read/download in JT400/JTOpen

    Currently, if I copy of PDF to an IBM i output queue, a printer file is created and it has that asterisk next to its COPIES property when view--and its PRINTER DEVICE TYPE = *USERASCIIWhen using a client-side tool that essentially uses JT400 to re...
    about 8 hours ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    IPG health to be shown in PowerVC UI

    Currently IPG health is not shown in the PowerVC UI and needs to be queried using RestAPI calls. This is not the most user friendly design, the information should be shown in the UI. This would benefit all users of PowerVC. A page in the UI should...
    1 day ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    PowerVC multi-homed interfaces

    As a bank we usually separate the admin VLAN from the production VLAN, which makes things more secure. Unfortunately now we can only run PowerVC on one of these interfaces, not both. That is not a desired situation, especially for the graphic inte...
    1 day ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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