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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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VMRDR needs to handle SSH login security banners displayed by a storage_agent

When running a discover on a workgroup, if the remote storage_agent (like a FS9200) has a security login banner enabled, VMRDR is reading that banner as actual input to be parsed instead of ignoring it and only reading the true data. When connecti...
3 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

IPv6 - Provide default gateway configuration for SST LAN adapter interface

It is not possible in the existing OS releases to configure the default gateway for IPv6 interface in SST LAN interface. The only way how to make IPv6 interface working for this interface is to configure a LAN switch with auto discovery setup whic...
12 months ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Future consideration

Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Oauth authentification for email

Hello, In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online I...
7 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

Need a way to track rejected relays in SMTP relay server on IBM i

We just converted our SMTP server from *SDD directory type to *SMTP. The LPAR is being used as an SMTP relay for other IBM i LPARs and related hardware. Previously, I could query the QZMF journal and look for "REJECTED RELAY" and see if a server t...
4 months ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

New IBM i Service for SMTP

I would like an IBM i Service to view and manage the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) on IBM i. Ideally this service would not only allow a user to view and or modify the configuration of SMTP but also to view the Email History stored within t...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 9 Not under consideration

Support of OAUTH in SMTP

We currently use the SMTP server to relay email from the iSeries to Office365 and outlook. We have this setup with the Microsoft connector. It is working fine. Microsoft has announced that they will be requiring OAUTH2.0 by March of 2026. Can SMTP...
4 months ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Submitted

Allow unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks associated with a virtual machine at a secondary (disaster recovery) site to be omitted during the discover/verify process, enabling disaster recovery operations.

Allowing unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks for a DB2 virtual machine using a DB2 tie-breaker disk at a disaster recovery (DR) site will enable us to fully automate the failover from the primary to the secondary site.
8 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Start and stop the Syslog server on the IBM i

Add the ability to start and stop the Syslog server on IBM i to the STRTCPSVR and ENDTCPSVR commands.Similarly, in Navigator for IBM i
8 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Under review