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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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Add support to ISCSI devices beyond VTL

Please, add support to ISCSI DVD and ISCSI disk volumes, so we can have more backup and restore options. ISCSI DVD support could allow to create a network install or backup/restore device for SAVSYS or Option22 operations. ISCSI Disks could allow ...
5 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Allow to create and save to a Tape Image Catalog on remote server

Please, add support to Tape Image Catalog so we can save on a remote server (probably NFS V4) and allow migrate to the cloud when there is not enough local storage in the ASP. I know we can use a Remote Virtual Optical Image Catalog, but this only...
29 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Restoring individual Authorization Lists.

When moving one customer from a SAAS LPAR to his own LPAR, you must be restoring ALL user profiles to get all Authorization lists. The SAAS LPAR is running multiple customers with over 1500 user profiles. If you want to move one customer with abou...
2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 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

Add a parameter in RSTOBJ command so we can restore files an can selecting attributes of files

its usefull because may be you need to restore a group of large files with similar names (Like MST*) and only need to restore Physical files.something like this: RSTOBJ OBJ(*ALL) SAVLIB(MILIB) DEV(TAP01) OBJTYPE(*FILE) FILETYPE(*PF-DTA) or FILEATR...
2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Functionality already exists

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

Allow concurrent restores from a single save file

The suggestion is to be able to restore content from a single SAVF to two (or more) places at one. The use case is environment refresh. We refresh two environments at the same time and because time is limited and the restore process is the longest...
3 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Needs more information

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

Extend the SAVxxx and RSTxxx commands to allow an IFS file as the SAVF file.

The SAV and RST commands allow the value *SAVF for the device parameter, but the save file itself must necessarily refer to a file located in a library. Of course, it’s possible to use the CPYTOSTMF and CPYFRMSTMF commands to achieve the desired r...
6 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review