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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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Hostname variable to be used when copying configuration items in the GUI

Currently if you copy configuration items that include a report detail (e.g Malware configuration) the Scan report title will include the source system name as text. This should populate as the correct host name on each target for the copy, otherw...
5 days ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

AIX Security reporting tool

Since CIS Tool latest version (v4.x) dropped support for generating AIX security reports based on CIS AIX 7.x benchmark; There is currently NO tool, which would generate decent HTML security reports from AIX systems. And that is a HUGE gap in secu...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

Seperating Access to Profile Editor

Currently there is one option to give an user rw rights. For all custom profiles or none. We have the need to be more granular. For instance: seperate it by operating system seperte it within an Operating system (by LPAR or hostname)
10 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Add capability of defining subgroups for Compliance page

For usability in large environments it would behelpfull to be able to create subgroups on the Compliance page. Here an example: Group: SAP - Sub-Group: SAP-Test SAP-QA SAP-Prod
9 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
about 1 year ago in PowerSC 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.
3 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 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 column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

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

Seamless Integration of PowerVC MFA with PowerSC for Centralized Security Compliance

Currently, IBM PowerVC supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for user access. However, there is no way to integrate or enforce this MFA configuration within IBM PowerSC. This creates a gap in centralized compliance and security management bec...
3 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted