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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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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...
2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 30 Under review

Have possibility to download PTFs via https

Hello, in our company we are forbidden to use java web start as it was marked as vulnerability and FTP connection is being slowly banned out as well. Would there be option (same as for fixes for other IBM products like storage etc) to use https fo...
6 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Under review

Add the description of the PTF is the summary of PTF groups, cumulative, etc...

When you are about to install a PTF group is nice to check which are the PTFs it includes, especially if you want to solve a certain problem. Also is good to check between 2 different groups to check why something works with one group PTF and not ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Under review

SSL/TLS Enable IBM Fix Central Java (JNLP File) PTF Downloads

IBM Fix Central's Java (JNLP) Downloads currently use Non-secure TCP Ports 8470 thru 8476 on the Target AS400/iSeries. We're in the process of locking down Non-secure TCP Ports in favor of their corresponding SSL/TLS Ports 9470 thru 9476. We canno...
11 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Under review