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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    Enhance SNDPTFORD command: Increase PTF limit to 300, add RLS parameter

    Modernize the SNDPTFORD command to improve security remediation and simplify multi-version partition migration setups without drastically changing the core command architecture. With the increasing number of critical security vulnerabilities (CVEs...
    1 day ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

    vHMC supports for hypervisors; KVM, Zen, ESX & PowerVM. Since we support vHMC as a KVM "appliance", and OpenShift Virtualization runs KVM guests, can we add OpenShift Virtualization as a supported platform for vHMC?

    Customers run vHMC under VMware today, and are supported by IBM.  As many of our customers are replacing VMware with OVE (OpenShift Virtualization), they'd very much value IBM supporting vHMC under OVE.  If they take our vHMC KVM image, ...
    1 day ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    BRMS Reports - duplication jobs

    Hello, In BRMS reports like DSPLOGBRM we have the BKU* and ARC* status, but we don't have duplication jobs.  We use the duplication as usual to move the backups from  virtual to physical tapes.My idea is to implement the report for the d...
    1 day ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    End-to-end FC SFP Diagnostics via Read Diagnostic Parameters (RDP ELS)

    Background info Current-generation Fibre Channel adapters expose SFP transceiver diagnostics, which are readable from the OS.On IBM i, the fcioa -sfpinfo macro in SST/DST already surfaces this data.With the November 2025 GA of V7R5 TR7 and V7R6 TR...
    22 days ago in AIX 14 Submitted

    OpenSSH 10.x for AIX 7.2 / 7.3 / VIOS

    Why this is a security requirement, not a version wish Post-quantum key exchange by default. OpenSSH 10.0 makes the hybrid ML-KEM key agreement the default and adds a warning when a connection falls back to a non-quantum-safe algorithm (WarnWeak...
    13 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Modernize SNDPTFORD performance and user experience

    The current SNDPTFORD command is slow and lacks visibility when downloading large PTF packages or cumulative groups. To improve the user experience and match modern standards, we request the following enhancements: Multi-threaded Downloading: Im...
    1 day ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

    Enhance alt_rootvg_op to preserve custom alternate rootvg name across wake/sleep operations

    The alt_rootvg_op supports assigning a customer VG name to an alternate root VG, using -v. This is useful on systems that maintain multiple alternate root VGs for different purposes. For example: # lspv | grep MKSYSB hdisk0 00cc8df7ddd2f1e9 WEEKLY...
    2 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Enhance the nvmesed tool to query and display the TryLimit value for each PIN

    Right now there is no possibility to know how many retries are left to enter successfully a certain PIN (either user, admin or SID PIN) to unlock a NVMe SED drive. However, this information is available on the drive itself and could get queried an...
    15 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Provide a way to query Db2 for IBM i members

    Currently, using OVRDBF to direct SQL statements to a specific database file member is functional, but it is not an ideal solution. It requires an external override that is disconnected from the SQL statement itself, making the code less self-cont...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 11 Future consideration

    LPAR CPU Placement on mulit CEC systems

    When you create an LPAR on a multi-CEC system, such as an E1080 or E1180, its placement is determined by its maximum virtual processor and memory configuration.If the system already hosts many smaller LPARs, a new LPAR may be placed across two or ...
    about 1 month ago in Power Systems Design 3 Submitted

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