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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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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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Networking

Provide FTP virtual directories

Allow a user (on a per user basis, preferable via the QIBM_QTMF_SVR_LOGON exit) to be locked into a specific FTP directory... this directory should be his virtual root (jail). This concept prevents the user from navigating or specifying a path out...
4 months ago in IBM i / Networking Under review

SMTP journal

It would be important to have a journal available for mail servers configured using the SMTP framework as well, one that logs all email sending activities. This is particularly important when dealing with auditors who request old logs, in which ca...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Networking Under review

SNMPv3 sends error messages back to the SNMP Mgr

When get wrong value, need SNMP Agent (here is IBM i) response Report PDU with error "notInTimeWindow" + agent's current (new) `engineBoots` and `engineTime` values to SNMP Mgr. It can trigger SNMP Mgr run Discovery and refresh the value.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Networking Under review