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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.

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netserver substitution variabiles in share declaration or exit program for dynamic mapping

In many system is possible and common to connect to a logical share that then get mapped do different physical directories according to substitution variable in the share declaration. for example accessing via SMB \\server\home maps to the connect...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

"Power Pi" - a low-cost Power-based single-board computer

The popularity of Linux was and still is fused by its easy and cheap availability. Every student or hobbyist can setup his/her own server using a "Raspberry Pi" for under 100$. A similar offering on the basis of low-cost Power hardware could do th...
2 months ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted

IBM i - Build an hypervisor linked to a physical device (dongle) to run "IBM i Dev-Edition" in a Apple Mac with Silicon processor.

To improve IBM i adoption with new generations we need to provide them with an inexpensive and "cool" experience. IBM i runs in its own "hardware abstraction layer", so porting to a new hardware is supposed to be less complex than other OSs. Most ...
2 months ago in Power Systems Design 4 Submitted

SMB 3.1.1 support needed in IBM i 7.4

We have tested the communication between SMBv3 on IBMi and SMBv3.1.1 on Windows and it doesn't work.
5 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 Future consideration

Have a P05 tier level system in every new initial Power system rollout.

I understand wanting to get high end systems as they might be the first people to need the new horsepower of a new Power system. However these same people may not be allowed to go to a new Power System until that model has been certified by their ...
5 months ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted

New Customer Portal for Increased Support Experience

I would like to propose a new main support portal for clients. In the portal you would be able to have a interface in which you could input your customer ID number or numbers depending on if you manage multiple IBM Power systems across different o...
6 months ago in Power Systems Design 2 Submitted

Add the attributes like the owner and creation date on the netserver ffile share so we know who created it and when it was created like IFS objects showing the owner and creation date

Like IFS and object attributes, it is useful because we need to know who created and when it was created. Also, whatever the user creates the netserver file share, the user picks a name that might be acceptable or not acceptable. Also, it can be a...
7 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Functionality already exists

Add 5250 and VTxxx web console to FSP

Please, add a web-console or telnet/ssh console to the FSP for single-LPAR systems.
8 months ago in Power Systems Design 2 Under review

Exit point QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV should include the Netserver file share name

This exit point currently provides a lot of data about file server access, but this one key piece of information is missing (the share name). During security remediation, it would be invaluable to capture the name of the share that is being used, ...
11 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

Enhance the CPIAD09, CPIAD0B, and CPI3E34 messages to indicate whether the connection came in an a secure port or a non-secure port

The subject messages are all very similar and are logged to the history log when new connections are made to the system. These messages are very useful to understand the workload for connections to the system. However, there is no ability to deter...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Future consideration