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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    Enhance the SNMP or PJL driver to allow drawer control for PDF files

    Enhance the SNMP and/or PJL driver to allow the inclusion of PJL drawer commands to allow PDF files to print to specific drawers. Currently IBM i does not support PCL6, and that, combined with the ease of using color with PDF files, has meant that...
    9 days ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

    "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

    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

    Printer writer job is unable to recover after a preprocessed spool file is deleted unexpectedly

    I observed that our writer job occasionally encounters the CPF6DF5 error after a temporary spool file is deleted in the output queue during preprocessing according to IBM Support. When this error occurs, all subsequent spools entering the queue ar...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

    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

    Add commands that can be used to automate managing PDF MAP Entries. ADDPDFMAPE, CHGPDFMAPE, DLTPDFMAPE.

    Currently to manage PDF MAP Entries the WRKPDFMAPE command must be used interactively which makes automating this process using CL commands not possible. The QPQAPME API could be used but there is significant work in developing this process, the u...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Print 2 Future consideration

    Use page 1, line 1 as the starting position when using a PRTF to create a spooled file

    When following the documentation at the link below, the spooled file that gets created has a starting position of page 1, line 6. This causes issues when using different form types to print the documents with the new spooled file. https://www.ibm....
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

    keep alive or timeout within the LPR/LPD process to the IBM i for remote output queues to recover without having to end and restart the writer.

    IBM i was sending data to the printer. The connection was dropped and both the IBM i and printer are waiting indefinitely for a response from the other side." the current design of LPR/LPD on IBM i does not have a keep alive or timeout setting. Th...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

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