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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    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...
    12 days ago in AIX 11 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...
    5 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Axis support for GZIP/deflate compression/decompression data

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

    allow migration of IBM i loadsource without downtime

    You can easily migrate IBM i LPARs from one Power Server onto another one without downtime currently. You can also add/remove disks to either system or independed ASPs without any downtime. But once it comes to loadsource you need to IPL system do...
    7 days ago in IBM i / Storage 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

    monitor the status of the qinter subsystem devd table before it fills up and crashes by reporting the CPI146F.

    Deleting unused devds may not result in the subsystem table being reclaimed; this is known but is not treated as an error; it simply is.I believe it is necessary to know how busy this table is in order to plan a restart of the subsystem before the...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    The SYSTOOLS.CVE_INFO table function does not provide the list of corrective PTFs

    The SYSTOOLS.CVE_INFO table function does not provide the list of corrective PTFs. We must search the HTML page to find the list of corrective PTFs. It would be nice to have a field with the list of corrective PTFs and also to get the affected pro...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 3 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...
    3 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Enhance WRKJOB by adding an option to display the currently executing SQL statement and execution details for a selected job.

    Many IBM i administrators and support teams rely on WRKJOB as the primary green-screen interface for monitoring active jobs. However, when investigating performance issues, resource consumption, or long-running database activity, it is often diffi...
    3 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

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