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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    Frame P8 support on HMC V11

    Many customers still have P8 frames in service because it's the latest version supporting AIX 5.3. Lot of infrastructures have P8 and P10 frames connected to the same HMC. The refusal to support P8 frames requires segmenting the management of the...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Add a new option on CRTDUPOBJ to replace the object

    Create a new option REPLACE(*YES|*NO) on the CRTDUPOBJ command that will replace the TO object if it exists. This will allow you to use Wildcards and just replace the object. The use case for this is so, we need to copy objects from one library to...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

    Convert all OS screens to 132 columns

    It would be nice to have all the OS screens (including all output) in 132 columns and not 80 columns. In 2025 everyone has monitors that properly support (and with a nice readable font) 132-column screens.
    10 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

    Add Last Used Time for Object

    Currently, create and change have both the date and time but last used only has the date. It would be nice to be able to see the last used time of an object as well. Checking what time an object has been used would useful in validating if an objec...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

    Please add for REST API token based authentication

    Security tools and hardening activities usually configure password expiration for accounts and then REST API call will stop working. Using separate tokens for REST API prevent for automation tools stop working.
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Integrate SQL Object Name into IBM i Object Description

    More and more IBM i object types are being utilized by the SQL environment on IBM i. However, "the database" is supposed to be Integrated, not an add-on on this platform. Therefore when an IBM i object is repurposed as an SQL Object and a LONG nam...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 6 Not under consideration

    extend Support for HMC classic View after Release 8.8.6

    Wir benutzen den classic View auf der HMC in der Version 8.8.6. Beim letzten Update ist aufgefallen das die Version 8.8.6 die letzte Version sein soll, die den classic View unterstützt.Mit dem enhanced+ View haben wir erhebliche Performance Proble...
    over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

    HMC simple linux diag-commands for rsh-shell

    make simple Linux diag-commands like "top", "lscpu", "lsmem", "mvcli" etc. available on HMC-rsh-shell.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Modernize the 5250 display

    Hello, One of the recurring critiques when discussing ibmi is related to the 'green screens.' They are associated with an aging image of the machine. I absolutely do not share this opinion, but I hear it too often. Since IBMi can manage a multitud...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

    DO NOT Drop support for X86 HMC

    IBM Has announced they will drop support for the X86 HMC BEFORE CUSTOMER LEASES ARE EVEN COMPLETE! This is BALDERDASH! I get it you want to support just one piece of hardware and the Power HMC is the correct choice. But especially customers who bo...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 7 Not under consideration

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