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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    Allow PTF's to be downloaded via HTTP instead of FTP or Download Director

    Allow PTF's to be downloaded via HTTPS instead of FTP or Download Director. Some organizations do not allow access to external FTP sites and most Java browsers discourage use of Java applets. Allowing download via HTTPS will make it easier to acce...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Future consideration

    Group PTF apply date

    Keeping IBM i up-to-date is becoming more and more important when you look at today's threads. (Just think of December 2021 and the log4j issue.)As a result of that reporting when an IBM LPAR was protected also becomes more and more important for ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 8 Future consideration

    implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs.

    Implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs. When a node failure occurs on the service machine and the shared disk created by AIX LVM mirror is taken over to the standby machine, syncvg is forced using t...
    about 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    need a new PTF Group for IBM i compilers and developer tools 5770-WDS

    Recently I had some PMRs -> APARs resolved by PTFs. The problem is, these new PTFs are not automatically included on any CUMe package and I was very surprised to learn that they were not included in any of the current Group PTFs for IBM i 7.1, ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

    PowerHA make use of the SVC tiebreaker information

    For SVC Stretched Cluster based PowerHA implementation. For split-brain situations, it would be very helpful if PowerHA would be able read the decision made by the underlying SVC cluster.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Not under consideration

    Add feature to be able to add mount options to NFS cross mounts

    For some our NFS cross mounted filesystems we need to be able to add additional NFS mount options. This is a requirement triggered by SAP. It also should be added to the SAP Smart Assist tools.
    almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

    As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
    7 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 7 Submitted

    Clarification of the Technology Refresh

    The following is the screen text for the PTF package apply for a special handling or a Technology Refresh PTF pack. Confirm IPL to Complete PTF InstallSystem: DATA1A technology refresh PTF and/or special handling PTF requires an initialprogram loa...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Future consideration

    CHGCNTINF or WRKCNTINF: Add mailing vs site address

    Neither of our data centers get US Mail. All mail goes to corporate. Therefore onWRKCNTINF2. Work with local service informationI would like to have two addresses:- Mailing address- Physical site location. Use Case: When a box calls in for support...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 4 Future consideration

    Add options to use different shared Filesystems for SAP Smart Assist

    When using PHA SAP Smart Assist it is required to use NFS 4.It would be very helpful to have an option to use NFS 3 or ISS (GPFS) instead.
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

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