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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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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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PTF and Service

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Have WRKPRB generate Cases, not PMR's

WRKPRB is generating PMR's. IBM has switched over to Cases instead of PMR's. WRKPRB2. Report problem CPC8C03Problem reporting complete. Service number is 78100,082,000.This should show the Case number instead. Use Case: Service and support
about 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Delivered

Improve MSD Reclaim time

With 512 / 4096 sectored disk units, MSD reclaim runs single threaded. This can result in a MSD taking hours to complete. On a system with 4tb of memory C6004242 - Reclaim main storage: pass 1 step 2 took four hours and fifteen minutes to complete...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 6 Delivered

Add support to PRTTRC to sort by *TIME

The PRTTRC has a parameter, SORT, that has two options: *TIME and *THREAD. Attempting to sort by *TIME results in CPF98FF, Function currently not supported. Cause: *TIME Not supported. We intend to provide this function at a future date. This has ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 4 Delivered

STRSST: Remove diskette data recovery

STRSST4. Work with diskette data recovery.Diskettes have not been supported in decades. Use Case: Improve customer perception that service tools are being verified as still fully functional and supported.
about 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Delivered

Add 7.4 support to the list of PTF's

Add 7.4 to document N1021943 athttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/access-ptf-cover-letters Use Case: service and support
over 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Delivered

Enable IBMI V7R2 EDGE server for Electronic service Agent

We are required to setup IBM ESA successful for V7R3 and DS8886/Power E880 HMC, but can't setup successful in V7R2. Use Case: for customer at banking environment , we can't open too many IP & port for ESA. We are able to open firewall for esup...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Delivered