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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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Modern ILE C++ Compiler (at least C++11) and future support

We need a modern ILE C++ compiler (at least C++11). Furthermore this compiler should be frequently updated within a IBM i release. In order to be able to provide our software long term for the IBM i platform, we would also need support for newer v...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 13 Delivered

PowerSC MFA solution to create an allow/block list for users.

It would be useful to have a feature added to PowerSC MFA inorder to create a list of users to which the MFA should not be applicable. This is a requirement in our environment as we have multiple automation/service users which perform some kind of...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

PowerSC Patch Management replication feature should work with non-root users

The PowerSC Patch Management feature allows Primary-Secondary TNCPM topology- the primary server downloads TLs, SPs, ifixes etc and replicates them to the the secondary TNCPM server. For this, we need to configure password-less root SSH between pr...
almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

Preserve case sensitivity of identifiers for COBOL web services

When creating webservices currently COBOL does not have a way preserve the case of identifier names used in the COBOL program when generating PCML. Use Case: When interacting with Nadir Amra from IBM, amra@us.ibm.com, whilst trying to solve a prob...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 5 Delivered

PowerSC TNCPM should allow installation of ifixes without NIM

PowerSC TNCPM is widely used by customers to deploy security patches on AIX LPARs. Currently, the security ifixes are installed through NIM server. Some customers do not use NIM because NIM has a complex port requirement as described in the follow...
over 2 years ago in PowerSC 5 Delivered

PowerSC should provide a configurable parameter to specify the validity of TLS certificates

PowerSC is a great tool to manage security and compliance of AIX and Linux endpoints running on Power servers. PowerSC server communicates with the endpoints in a secure way using a TLS connection. Currently, the validity of TLS certificates is ha...
over 5 years ago in PowerSC 1 Delivered

IBM i COBOL build in IFS file

RDi now support Git for COBOL source version control in utf-8 code in IFS. So we want the COBOL source file in IFS to compile using CRTBNDCBL command directory. But we have to convert the source from utf-8 to EBCDIC in IFS. So CRTBNDCBL command ca...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 5 Delivered

PowerSC GUI server custom bind address

By default PowerSC GUI Server listen on all IP addresses, binding to the port 443 (customizable), and there's no way to specify a custom/specific IP address for the binding. This is quite critical as if there are other services listening on the sa...
about 7 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

PowerSC profile for HMC

PowerSC agent/profile for HMC to apply and monitor DOD compliance on our HMCs.
over 5 years ago in PowerSC 5 Delivered

NEED ADDED FEATURES FOR AIX TRUSTED EXECUTION

Hi Team, We use AIX trusted execution in our environment for some of critical AIX servers. The application is such that it undergoes some or other update very frequently and we have to repeatedly whitelist files in TSD manually. This becomes tedio...
over 4 years ago in PowerSC 4 Delivered