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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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SSL/TLS Enable IBM Fix Central Java (JNLP File) PTF Downloads

IBM Fix Central's Java (JNLP) Downloads currently use Non-secure TCP Ports 8470 thru 8476 on the Target AS400/iSeries. We're in the process of locking down Non-secure TCP Ports in favor of their corresponding SSL/TLS Ports 9470 thru 9476. We canno...
about 7 hours ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Read Only Access for individual PEP2.0 pools in the CMC

Read only access to the Enterprise Pools in the CMC is a wonderful thing that is almost complete. What is missing is the ability to be more granular. Right now , the person with Read Only access gets access to ALL of the pools in the CMC. This is ...
about 7 hours ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow option to not log invalid OID requests as TCP4012 in job QTMSNMP

It was discovered while a monitoring team had the IBM i LPARs set up in SolarWinds (SW) for SNMP monitoring that the QTMSNMP jobs were reaching maximum log size and ending. IBM support identified that among the OIDs SW was requesting were OIDs tha...
1 day ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Make spoolfile searching case insensitive

When searching a spooled file, the information must be entered case sensitive. Instead of searching for escape, I have to search for Escape in order to find escape messages in job logs. Instead of searching for 'library list changed', I have to se...
1 day ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

support backing up(backupios command) of VIOS to USB memory stick

The backupios command manual states that only tape and cd are supported. At least there is no mention of USB memory sticks. In many cases, there is a desire to back up the VIOS onto a USB memory stick. Considering the operational convenience, the ...
2 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

Provide a system-level iconv table for SYSVAL(QCCSID) to CCSID(1208) and CCSID(1200) Cached

As part of our ongoing efforts to optimize character encoding conversion in C and C++ applications on IBM i, we are currently utilizing a multi-step process to handle conversions between the JOB CCSID (an EBCDIC CCSID) and UTF-16 (CCSID 1200). Spe...
3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

Editing IPGs after adding new hosts in PowerVC

Unfortunately, there is no option to edit IPGs if they are already in use. However, if you add new hosts to the PowerVC. You must then set the tags for the new hosts for the respective WWPNs. (Example DATA/BOOT)
3 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Longer SQL statement parameter in cldownload plugin or making it external

The idea of having a longer SQL statement parameter in the cldownload plugin or making it external revolves around enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of SQL queries used within the plugin. Here’s an expanded description of what this could en...
7 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

LKU uptime

Hello, it will be nice to see date and time of last successfull LKU, command like uptime for LKU output will be exact time and date when was LKU performed successfully. thank youRegards,Dany
7 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Extend viosecure.ctl config file with interface, address, and description fields.

The viosecure -firewall command work now only as a port filter setup. In the /home/ios/security/viosecure.ctl there are no options to set ip addresses or ranges, neither a interface can be selected where the filter rules should be applied. It appl...
7 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Submitted