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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    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 ...
    about 2 months ago in Power Systems Design 4 Submitted

    "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...
    about 2 months ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted
    147 VOTE

    Concurrent Maintenance for Ethernet adapter component SFP - FRU for SFP request

    Please provide concurrent maintenance using own FRU = Field Replaceable Unit number for adapter component SFP for ethernet adapter EN0J, EL38, EN0H, EL56, CCIN for all is 2B93, vendor Emulex / Broadcom. Currently a FRU number is available for whol...
    over 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 7 Not under consideration

    Journal receive encryption

    After a discution with a Db2 expert about RCAC implemenation, it appears that after an update of a journalized table, the corresponding journal entry can be fully displayed with a simple DSPJRN command. Is it possible to add a new option at the cr...
    17 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

    Add Column of Configured Maximum number of jobs on Active Prestart Jobs

    In the latest TRs, V7R4 TR11 in our case have been included some additional columns that also included the Peak in Use! It would be very usefull to also have an additional column with the configured Maximum number of jobs per PJ, so we could easil...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Functionality already exists

    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

    Add a "Last Active" Timestamp or number of elapsed seconds since the last activity for a Job to WRKACTJOB and QUSRJOBI API

    While we know that interactive jobs have an inactivity timer on them, the Work Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) and the corresponding API do not provide us with information on how long a user hasn't had an interaction with the 5250 session or a batch job h...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    Change the performance adjuster algorithm

    The performance adjuster algorithm looks only if the pool is paging but doesn't care if it has already free memory. This causes sometimes that a pool start stealing a lot of memory without using it. The algorithm should look at the unallocated mem...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

    Improve time to get Full Sysdump in Highend Mission critical systems with huge amount of memory

    As IBM we describe Highend Power servers as one of the most resilient and available platforms to hold mission critical workloads. Those servers have increasing amount of memory (several TB) and hold many workloads in parallel thanks to our PowerVM...
    over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 0 Planned for future release

    Enable a description to be added to system reply list entries

    When you use the wrkrpyle command you see a list of Message ID's which is quite meaningless. I recently was investigating at a new site where there were a lot of reply list messages and no site documentation so I worked through the messages to det...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

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