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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    Add a PowerHA smart Assist component for IBM InfoSphere DataStage app

    Our team uses PowerHA SystemMirror for our IBM InfoSphere DataStage application. However, PowerHA SystemMirror doesn't have a smart assist components for this product.
    over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

    Improve PowerHA SVC/FlashSystem ssh access security model

    Today PowerHA requires unrestricted the Admin role via SSH to manage the copy relationships on SVC/FlashSystem family storage. In todays modern security environment this is unacceptable to have a full multitenant array have unrestricted SSH access...
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    PowerHA cl_extendvg

    Today if you extend a cluster VG through smit hacmp or by command cl_extendvg the disk will be added even it is used already on another system.In non PowerHA environments (extendvg) this is avoided and you would have to force the command. In Power...
    over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    PowerHA SMUI support of ECDSA keys

    Current SMUI is using 8+ years old SSH libraries which do support only RSA keys. More modern keys like ECDSA are supported by used libraries for about 4 years. I do not understand why modern UI is relying on ancient libraries and does not allow us...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    RUNJVA RESTART(*YES) or ENDJVA to restart the Java Virtual Machine

    One of the reasons that I till now only have seen java used in batch jobs is, that you have absolutely no control over the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) once it is started. Environment variables are for example only initialized once. This means you c...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Not under consideration

    Support of SAP HANA multi-target scale-up configuration (A->B & A->C) via Smart Assist in PowerHA

    Multi-target HSR (Hana System Replication) A->B & A->C will likely be the most desired configuration for the customers who want both HA and DR for HANA. We are implementing it at the customer now, but since there is no smart assist, ther...
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    API for getting thread id & thread name such as in command PRTJVMJOB *thread

    For JVM users and ERP (such as M3 or others), the thread id inside JVM could be internal to software or dedicated tool. In this case, to investigate job performance such as idoctor or job watcher it is impossible to search a job or tasks with the ...
    8 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

    Enhance PHA Startup Policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy"

    Today the PowerHA Starup policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy" is hard coded to use the CPU load only.There should be the same list of options as for Resource Group Fallover policy "Fallover Using Dynamic Node Priority".
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Smart assist support for NFS server

    We need smart assist support for NFS server
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Add FIPS support to JDK 17 and beyond.

    FIPS is a requirement for criminal justice processing. It was previously supported in JDK 8 (and maybe later) on the iSeries. It is not supported in JDK 17. To be in compliance with federal Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) standards, FI...
    10 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Submitted

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