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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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upgrade HMC service-management-panel - dump-panel - to add IBM-support-case-no when calling-home a dump

It will ease up work with HMC-GUI to have an option to add the IBM-Support-case-no. to a dump-file when choosing " call-home dump ". This will give IBM-ECUREP the feature to right place the uploaded dump-file to the correct IBM-support-case unless...
about 4 hours ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

norwegian language in R760 or at least as a secondary language

Woul
about 5 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

We need some additional functionality in PowerVC, when adding additional lun's

We need some additional functionality in PowerVC, when adding additional lun's
about 12 hours ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Add mTLS authentication to IWS

It is currently possible to configure Apache to run mTLS. However, the Apache instance is becoming less and less useful with IWS, and we want to be able to implement mTLS directly within the IWS Java instance.
1 day ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

Add Function Usage for SQL Statements similar to Allowed SQL Statements in Query Manager

Query Manager allows for limiting of SQL Statements, ALTER, DELETE, UPDATE, INSERT, etc. which is helpful to reduce the amount of users who can use SQL to manipulate tables. However, it only works within Query Manager. Can a Function Usage be adde...
2 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

HMC tab replacement for QLZARCAPI

When licensing software for an LPAR of IBM i we are often asked to do the following on that LPAR: CALL QCMD CALL QLZARCAPI This generates a screen like the following attachment This is tough to do on an lpar that we’ve not restored the OS on to ye...
2 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Support for non-english characters in Novalink VNC console for aix/linux lpar

Novalink supports non-english characters for IBM i console, but currently has no option for AIX or Linux to support VNC console with non-english characters. this is needed for countries which would like to host LPARs with languages other than Engl...
2 days ago in PowerVM NovaLink 0 Submitted

iAccess Printer Host-Based Security

Currently QTCP is required to start a Host Based Printer. However, this opens up security that a user can setup a HOST Based printer that allowed them to redirect the HR files. Is it possible to restrict a Host Based Printer from being started unl...
2 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Have more, if not all, of iACS populate CLIENT_PROGRAMID

In an attempt to discover what versions of IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS) are currently attached to our systems I am running the following SQL: SELECT ji.job_name, GJI.V_AUTHORIZATION_NAME, GJI.V_CLIENT_PROGRAMID, GJI.V_CLIENT_IP_ADDRESS FRO...
2 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

RSEAPI - Force session usage

Hello, APIs can be used either with basic auth or by opening a session using a token. Some APIs, such as those that return session information, can only be called with a token. The setting to limit usage, `POST /api/v1/admin/settings`, only applie...
2 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted