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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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Make available in ibm yum repo major ODBC DBMS

Would be nice and of value having major DBMS available in IBM yum repo readily available to pull. For example we have already in @ibmi-base freetds-odbc.ppc64 for freetds would be nice to have for example mysql odbc, postgres compiled for PASE. th...
2 days ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

PEP2.0 should allow three POWER generations in 1 pool

PEP2.0 currently supports TWO generations of Power hardware (like Power8+9, Power9+10 of Power10+11) in one pool. Suppose you currently have E950 and E1050 in one Enterprise Pool, adding an E1150 to the same pool is not possible. If you want to ke...
4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
11 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Notification Details- Call Home

We would like to explore the possibility to get all the details available on this notification such as: Host name of the device, serial number, model, type. with that we can have more information and details at the time that the call home event is...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

IBM websites remember you but ask MFA repeatedly

I am an IBM champion, also Authorized Program Administrator and Primary Relationship Contact and I also work as engineer with the Support portal, FixCentral etc. That means I login to IBM websites a lot. Luckily most IBM sites I use now use a sing...
4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Add support for golang on power i

We run node servers built from typescript projects on power i. Typescript has recently announced they will be porting over their transpiler to golang https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/ Angular has already switched to...
4 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

E-mail about CMC socket subscription expiring lacks vital information

There are e-mails being sent out by CMC to warn us about expiring CMC socket subscriptions. We run into the problem that the e-mail lacks vital information to take immediate action. The e-mail currenty lists the number of sockets that are affected...
4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Adoption of GOLANG (GO Compiler) by Google in the ibmi-ioss supported within PASE

Nodejs Open source applications are beginning to leverage the GO compiler to increase performance. These tend to be things like Angular, typescript etc.
3 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Provide Exit Point support for SSHD Daemon

We would like to utilize the standard IBM exit point program interfaces QIBM_QZDA* to provide control for the SSHD (SSH Daemon) provided with OpenSSH 5733-SC1. This protocol should have the same support available as Telnet, ODBC and FTP protocols ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Under review

Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted