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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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.

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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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    Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

    With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

    Faster Encrypted Backups for IBM i

    There are regulations that require to encrypt tape backups also for IBM i. However, software encryption requires about twice as long as the build-in real-time hardware encryption in IBM TS1xxx tapedrives. There are no means to manage the tape libr...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration
    247 VOTE

    Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

    Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

    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

    withdrawal

    withdrawal
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Flash Copy for internal disks

    Availability to run for IBM i flashCopy on internal disks (similar like on the ext storage) for backup purpose. The flash copy could be assigned to another lpar and perform backup with or without Full System Flash Copy toolkit.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 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

    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

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