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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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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...
1 day ago in Hardware Management Console 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...
8 days ago in Hardware Management Console 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...
1 day ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 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 32 Under review

Integrate with PowerVC Novalink managed environments

Currently the lack of support/integration with a PowerVC Novalink managed environment is a stopper for the use of VM Recovery Manager within environments that utilise this configuration (On premise private Power Clouds). VMRM performs it's LPAR op...
1 day ago in VM Recovery Manager 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...
11 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...
11 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 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...
17 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Provide FTP virtual directories

Allow a user (on a per user basis, preferable via the QIBM_QTMF_SVR_LOGON exit) to be locked into a specific FTP directory... this directory should be his virtual root (jail). This concept prevents the user from navigating or specifying a path out...
18 days ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Submitted

Enhance %CHAR or create a new built-in that referrences an array as a character string

RPG IV currently lacks a clean, safe, and expressive way in free-form RPG to treat an array (or a contiguous subset of an array) as a character string. This gap is most visible when attempting to replicate the behavior of the legacy MOVEA opcode, ...
26 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration