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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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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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Virtualization and Cloud

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QMGTOOLS - FTP Command to use *IBMSDDUU FTP server: testcase.boulder.ibm.com

QMGTOOLS- By default using FTP server as *IBMSDDUU: FTP.EUREP.IBM.COM which allows only port 21 and it is blocked in on our client servers, So we modified the QMGTOOLS/FTP2IBMCMD, FTP to IBM command to use TESTCASE.BOULDER.IBM.COM which allows HTT...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 5 Delivered

VPM autostart of hosted partition from the NWSD

Enable autostart capability for i-hosting-i partitions from the Network Server Description when using Virtual Partition Manager (VPM). With an HMC managed system, a hosted partition can be started/IPL'ed by varying on the host NWSD with power cont...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 6 Delivered

licensing without depending on system serial number

Need a new API to make licensing without depending on system serial number. Use Case: Rocket iCluster is a HA/DR tool on IBM Power system for 20+ years.We use GENLICKEY command to generate license keys for our customers. This command requires the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Delivered

NPIV Tape support for IBMi Hosting

Currently the only way to share a tape library is to virtualize the tape MLB under VIOS to the client partitions. I would like IBM i to be able to virtualize a Fibre attached Tape library. Use Case: Many times I have simple hosting environments, b...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Delivered