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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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Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
7 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Add PowerHA support for volume group snapshots as alternative to flash copy

Currently IBMi PowerHA supports remote mirror and policy based replication. PowerHA also support flash copy to copy an iASP from a source cluster node to a target cluster node. We use this technology to refresh our dev and acceptance systems with ...
3 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
18 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

SMB 3.1.1 support needed in V7.5

Security: CIS Benchmark for Windows 11 (CIS Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Benchmark v4.0.0) requires SMB version 3.1.1. Enforcement of this benchmark is a customer requirement
3 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Improve usability: Notify users with direct access to batch job results after submission

Enhance the system to send a completion message to the submitting user when the batch job finishes. The message should include: Direct options or links to: View spooled files View job log Reduces time spent locating job results Improves usability ...
4 days ago in IBM i / Other Submitted

AIX NFS client configuration with TLS

This secures the traditional NFS traffic (that normally runs over RPC).
18 days ago in AIX Submitted

Full Automation of AIX "autofsinstall" via system defined lpp_source

AIX 7.3 TL4 introduced the 'autofsinstall' functionality, which enables the automatic installation of missing packages. While this feature significantly streamlines operations, it currently requires the manual mounting of an 'lpp_source' from the ...
12 days ago in AIX Submitted

PowerVC Appliance tool to support firewall configuration

clients need a way to manage the firewall in Powervc similar to HMC
3 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

QEZUSRCLNP program settings

Hi, The QEZUSRCLNP program allows you to add a specific part to the system cleaning.It is located in QSYS.Problem: when upgrading the OS, if you don't remember to regenerate the customized version in QSYS, you'll end up with the standard version. ...
5 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Generic virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) support on KVM on any other host OS

Some clients moving away from VMware and going in direction KVM from Proxmox, AHV from Nutanix or others (e.g. Platform9). The current support for the virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) is limited to Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) on U...
5 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted