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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM needs to identify access paths for self-training on IBM i

Free access IBM i systems like PUB400.COM have up to the present been critical in the community at providing venues for self-training in IBM i. I and others in the community consider it absolutely necessary that such venues continue, and the IBM t...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

Environment Branding Options for IBM Navigator for i landing page.

Being able to tell at a glance the partition or environment you are signing into from the IBM Navigator would be immensely helpful in preventing adverse actions or changes in the wrong environment. Even changing the standard color scheme would be ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Other 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

Add proxies parameters accross the board in the QMGTOOLS utility

Depending on the way company networks are configured proxies may be an important way to connect to the internet.
3 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

Add FSFC Full System Flashcopy option for holding Advanced Job Scheduler jobs

There is a parameter for holding regular scheduled jobs in the default IBM i job scheduler, but there is not one for the (newly free of charge) Advanced Job Scheduler. We would like one.
4 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

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

the QteRetrieveModuleViews api miss module name and library

the QteRetrieveModuleViews api, which is supposed to returns information on each module of the program, does not provide the object name of each module (that is to say, the library and the module name) but only the internal name. the case is for ...
7 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

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