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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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Remove ability to set 0777 permissions

I cannot think of a situation where this is needed, and I frequently come across this being set out of ignorance and laziness.
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Add new parameter SAVDTA( *YES | *NO ) to the SAVLIB and SAVOBJ commands.

It would offer the ability to save a library (or object) without data so that a new instance of an application could be created starting with an empty database. Everything would be saved except the data. When the library is later restored tables a...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

IBM i - Add ZStandard (ZSTD) to compression algorithms when saving and restoring with SAV* / RST* commands and BRMS

ZSTD can provide a high compression ratio with a low CPU usage. We could compress image catalog files (tape and udf) using ZSTD faster than GZIP or PIGZ, and using less CPU. This could improve backups to remote image catalogs, some VTLs (QuadStor ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Not under consideration

withdrawal

withdrawal
almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

IBM and Huawei SAN Disk MPIO

IBM Deosn't recognized Huawei SAN Disk with using basic MPIO in maintenance mode. When client server boot in maintenance mode, rootvg disks presented from Huawei storage appears with multiple disk due to the basic MPIO of AIX cant combine Huawei m...
about 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

add file to existing savf

the request is to have the possibility to add objects to a SAVF already created and containing objects as happens for archive files eg. zip/tar.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Not under consideration

AIX kernel facility to track outstanding opens to a device

Currently AIX doesn't track open()s to a device. In case a process has a device opened before the configuration method has ran that device cannot be configured on the OS without a reboot, because it is not possible to identify the offending proces...
over 2 years ago in AIX 9 Not under consideration

make an official guide to installing and configuring oracle performance on aix in several languages

make an official guide to installing and configuring oracle performance on aix in several languages beacause it not clear in oracle website
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

offer training in official french on the aix system

enable French speakers around the world to improve their skills in ibm aix
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

make os aix virtualizable with vmware or virtualbox

os aix is too little known in the student world. offer a virtualizable test version with x64 processors
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration