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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    Add silent recovery to Scratch Install/Restore on IBM i, to help Migrate While Active (MWA) be fully automatic.

    Besides Migrate While Active have some issues building the NFS install server (take a look at the TFTP setup), there are tasks asking for manual operation. We work migrating customers with IBM i and AIX to Power Virtual Servers and other clouds, a...
    23 days ago in IBM i / Db2 Mirror 4 Under review

    mksysb for RHEL, ease of management and DR with same process as for AIX

    After years of using AIX one gets used to work with an operating system that really support you in regards of DR. We can use mksysb, alt_disk_”functions” and LU for AIX but is more limited in using Linux features. We would like to see how mksysb c...
    about 1 month ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Under review

    Teach "Refactor | Rename to use file ALIAS" about variable scoping

    I had occasion to use this refactor function today and it surprised me. I have used it before with much success. I had a file declared globally that contained a field FIELD1 (we'll say). I also had an externally described data structure in a sub-p...
    2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Under review

    possibility to assign the certificate from DCM console for Navigator and DCM web portal

    Today we have to manage or assign the certifiate outside DCM console especially while renewing new certificate we have to manage all tcp enabled ssl service in DCM console and for navigator and DCM outside DCM console like web admin console and na...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Under review

    Issue audit journal entry when Password Level 4 hash is generated at signon.

    For high availability replication products, knowledge is needed when a user profile changes. In most cases an audit journal entry is issued. However, when both the source and target systems are at OS 7.5 or 7.6 and a user profile does not yet have...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    add lun to asp, disk formatting too long

    Today with Flash disk and capacity up to 30TB the function add lun is too long. When we rebuild lpar from scratch we need many days to do it, moreover, if there are about a hundred lpar to be done. Is there a possibility to improve this feature Th...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Under review

    Improve samba client response time.

    Development found the I/O slowness is related with the oplocks & leases (feature-1082272) implementation. Looks like storing the data locally in VMM and reading back is causing the slowness. This needs more analysis and also might need in dept...
    3 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Start Offline checkbox on RDi startup.

    Sometimes it happens the RDi after entering signon credentials hangs during startup for different reasons (e.g. display file source tab in update mode was left open when closing workspace) In many of such cases a problem can be resolved by setting...
    3 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Under review

    Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

    Certificate lifespan is drastically shortening. and certificates are fundamental in todays security. Lifespan will be 47 days in 2029. IBM i needs a robust way to automate the renewal of publicly signed certificates.
    3 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

    Add support for USB devices >256GB

    As LTO Drives and media getting larger (and more expensive) it is not longer suitable for a daily backup on small environments. So a lot of customers use USB thumbdrives, but these are only supported up to 256GB Please add support (and test) for l...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Hardware 6 Under review

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