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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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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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All ideas

    Allow user to control new prompt for STRPCCMD

    IBM customers should be able to control if they want the additional prompt or not. Having it eliminates the ability to have automated scripts without user intervention. I suppose IBM can use the ACS properties file or some other mechanism to turn ...
    2 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

    Add additional user profile parameter associated with OWNER(*GRPPRF) to close security vulnerability.

    Lately I discovered a new security risk when user profile has GRPPRF(XXXX) and OWNER(*GRPPRF) specified. When such user creates another user profile or authorization list all XXXX group members can use these objects to get unauthorized access at l...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 1 month ago in AIX 16 Submitted

    Issue message for Transform Services if required subsystem QUSRWRK is not started

    At IBM i OS V7R5 and V7R6, Transform Services (5770TS1) requires subsystem QUSRWRK to be started. If the subsystem is not started, it can cause a variety of different scenarios depending on how the product is being used. For example, if using IBM ...
    about 16 hours ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

    Soft Delete for Spooled Files on IBM i

    Background On IBM i, when a spooled file is deleted, the deletion is permanent — there is no native mechanism to recover or restore it. Accidental deletions, whether caused by user error or unintended behavior in a runaway job, can occur at any ti...
    about 16 hours ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

    Provide vHMC support on Nutanix AHV Hypervisor

    It will allow customers with an existing Nutanix AHV hyperconverged environment to be able to run Hardware Management Console as a virtual machine. Currently, IBM does not officially support running the virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) o...
    about 18 hours ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    LANEB notification probe idea

    LANEB-NOTIF-PROBE
    1 day ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

    ZZTEST idea file_ids create probe

    ZZTEST-IDEA-FILE3-MARKER
    1 day ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

    ZZTEST idea-level attachment probe

    ZZTEST-IDEA-FILE-MARKER
    1 day ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    ZZTEST uuid-leak probe - safe to delete

    ZZTEST-UUID-LEAK-MARKER benign placeholder
    1 day ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

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