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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    Create serviceable events support for all Power Systems not only Power 11

    ich beziehe mich auf die kürzlich veröffentlichte Funktion zur Erstellung von Service-Cases direkt über das HMC-Interface. Diese Neuerung ist ein hervorragender Schritt, um die Fehlerbehebungszeiten zu verkürzen und den Prozess der Datensammlung z...
    4 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Made a service for SQLPACKAGE in embedded SQL

    Creation of a SQL service that allows analyzing the SQLPACKAGES included in Programs that contain embedded SQL. Like the SQLPACKAGES service that only includes those generated for ODBC. Some of this information is visible in PRTSQLINF, which gener...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    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...
    11 days ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

    As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
    2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 33 Under review

    DISPLAY_JOURNAL and excluded access objects

    DISPLAY_JOURNAL fails when I choose to use *ALLFILE for OBJECT_NAME if it attempts to display the journal details for a file I do not have access to view. Either make DISPLAY_JOURNAL always auto skip the process for files user has not access and r...
    about 21 hours ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Brocade san fabric strong encryption support

    Changing security requirements impacts host keys as saved in powervc SSH HostKeyAlgorithms : ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256 > SSH PubKeyAlgorithms : ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,...
    1 day ago in PowerVC 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...
    13 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

    IBM i Minimum password length user level

    On IBM i, the minimum password length is controlled by the system value QPWDMINLEN, which applies uniformly to all user profiles across the platform. While this provides centralized control, it does not allow differentiated password policies based...
    4 days ago in IBM i / Security 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...
    13 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

    Add a JOB TYPE (Batch or Interactive) field to RPG's PSDS (Program status data structure)

    When exception occurs I need to know whether to alert the (interactive) user or send alert (a MSG or e-mail) to SYSOPR. To achive this in the curren state of things I need to call a CL PGM (that does a RTVJOBA) or query the V_ACTIVE_JOB_TYPE Check...
    19 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

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