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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    Allow unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks associated with a virtual machine at a secondary (disaster recovery) site to be omitted during the discover/verify process, enabling disaster recovery operations.

    Allowing unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks for a DB2 virtual machine using a DB2 tie-breaker disk at a disaster recovery (DR) site will enable us to fully automate the failover from the primary to the secondary site.
    8 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Start and stop the Syslog server on the IBM i

    Add the ability to start and stop the Syslog server on IBM i to the STRTCPSVR and ENDTCPSVR commands.Similarly, in Navigator for IBM i
    8 months ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Not under consideration

    Fix bug in CHGSMTPA

    When you run CHGSMTPA you can choose SBSD in which you can run smtp jobs. This parameter allows putting 10 chars for the *sbsd object and 10 chars for the library. When you use a 10-character library in the parameter, however, errors occur in both...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Is a defect

    Support sctp on IBM i. I have used IBM system exclusively for 50 years. I have to use a Linux partition to access sctp now.

    Most other platforms support stcp "Stream Transmission Control Protocol" I don't understand why you haven't already. Diameter/internet gateway communitcations from the QOS Gx servers require stcp.
    6 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

    VMRM Discover/Verify - VM_CONFIG_COLLECTION_FAILURE for one LPar must not impact others

    We've VMRM 'HA' cluster among 2 Hosts. I had 5 VMs as 'managed', then i ran a Hostgroup discover + verify. Due to a HW failure the 'discover' failed for 2 VMs with event VM_CONFIG_COLLECTION_FAILURE, but was successful for the other 3 VMs. At the ...
    about 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future consideration

    Provide DKIM signing to the SMTP server/client on IBM i

    DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is an authentication protocol that links a domain name to a message. The protocol allows you to sign your email with your domain name. The purpose of the DKIM protocol is not only to prove that the domain name ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Enabling Port VLAN ID Update through VMRM DR using vNIC over SRIOV

    Enable the automatic update of Port VLAN IDs during VMRM DR failover through HMC to ensure network access for virtual machines.
    about 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Transfer IP addresses seamlessly in IBM i from one Ethernet Line description to another line description without interruption

    It is currently not possible in IBM i to transfer an IP address from one Ethernet line description to another without interruption. The IP address must be stopped, deleted and recreated with the reference to the new Ethernet line description. If t...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Support of modern remote copy function - Policy-based Replication (PBR)

    FlashSystem reference architectures are now based on Policy-based Replication (PBR). Policy-based Replication replaces Global Mirror, using volume group and no longer consistency group (replication) commands. This new Storage function should be su...
    over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    SNDSMTPEMM command must support SMTP Route field

    The SNDSMTPEMM command currently disallows the Directory Entry SMTP Route field, and therefore resorts to using the SMTP user ID and domain fields for the e-mail sender information. This in turn causes the characters for the Domain to be converted...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Not under consideration

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