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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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Provide batch or command interface for the "Populate with CAs" function of Digital Certification Manager

I have multiple LPARs, across multiple systems. When IBM comes out with a new SQL service to get data from some remote system and that system requires a new certificate it is very frustrating to have to log into DCM a bazillion times and execute "...
3 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

VMRDR needs to handle SSH login security banners displayed by a storage_agent

When running a discover on a workgroup, if the remote storage_agent (like a FS9200) has a security login banner enabled, VMRDR is reading that banner as actual input to be parsed instead of ignoring it and only reading the true data. When connecti...
1 day ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security 9 Submitted

Add issuer certificate serial number in qsys2.certificate_info and QycuRetrieveCertificateInfo API

In the DCM GUI, the hierarchy view provides the certification chain: the authority (one or more) + the client/server certificate. However, there is no solution for finding this link using code: The qsys2.certificate_info SQL service and the QycuRe...
3 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Automatic Management of TLS Certificates

Since the validity period of SSL/TLS certificates will be reduced from the current 398 days to 47 days starting in March 2029, managing certificates manually will become very difficult due to the significantly shortened validity.Therefore, a servi...
5 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

IBM I DCM API should be created to Delete old or Expired Certificates from the DCM Certificate Store

When Managing Certificates on many IBM I systems, we need the capability to remove old and Expired Certificates from the DCM Certificate Store.Looking at the available APIs for DCM https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/digital-certificate-manager-apis...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Allow unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks associated with a virtual machine at a secondary (disaster recovery) site to be omitted during the discover/verify process, enabling disaster recovery operations.

Allowing unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks for a DB2 virtual machine using a DB2 tie-breaker disk at a disaster recovery (DR) site will enable us to fully automate the failover from the primary to the secondary site.
8 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Allow Multi-factor authentication option to enable SMS/Email authentication methods in IBM i 7.6

Implementing email or SMS as additional MFA options on IBM i could enhance user convenience and adoption by providing familiar and easily accessible authentication methods. It would eliminate the need for every user to rely on authenticator apps, ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Expanding SQL to view certificates assigned to IBM i applications

In a previous release, IBM i SQL enhancements made it possible to view certificate info from the qsys2.certificate_info table using an SQL statement. The enhancement I am suggesting would take the next step and make it possible to view which certi...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted