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 option to append notes like confidentiality to an outgoing email

    I need a confidentiality notice appended to emails going out from the IBMi to cover legal requirements. There are no user exits in the system that I can use. I also need to embed other information into any outgoing email to identify which LPAR an ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Future consideration

    PowerSC agent to support Openshift cluster security compliance

    This would be useful if PowerSC can extend its support and management to the level of the Openshift Containers Security.We understand, it works (manage security comliance) on AIX and Linux on Power on different features including FIM, Comlpiance, ...
    about 2 years ago in PowerSC 1 Under review

    autoreconnect 5250 sessions are causing a denial of service attack

    Support cases: TS002923825 and TS002828742When a 5250 session (ROBS1 for example) is minimized sometimes a user will start it again from a desktop icon. Now you have 2 identical 5250 sessions fighting over the same device. The first one keeps cont...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 7 Not under consideration

    User interface improvements when configuring FIM

    Selecting the right files when configuring auditd or RTC can be a bit challenging and time-consuming at the moment - and we think some minor interface tweaks could make this process easier. 1) 'Freeze' the headings on the table when scrolling - to...
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

    TNC should indicate the exact subset of ifixes needed for a given TNC Client

    When a TNC verify operation is run, TNC creates a report, missingifixes.rpt. But that reports lists the set of ifixes that have direct or indirect relevance to the endpoint.For example, say that a system is vulnerable to a security issue that rela...
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

    TFTP server, please allow modern TFTP options allowing more than 32MB files

    Please implement rolling to 0, allowing client interopatibility. Thus I think the options here basically are: IBM strives for full adherence to what it is prescribed by the RFC standard so refuses to interoperate with basically common TFTP clients...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Not under consideration

    Change Auto start of FTP service from *YES to *NO for default IBM i installation

    By default the FTP service on IBM starts and accepts unencrypted connections. Best practice is to limit, encrypt or disable FTP access. So, starting at the next version of IBM i I would suggest we disable the FTP service by default. Users can then...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Not under consideration

    Add SO_REUSEPORT socket option

    It would be great to have SO_REUSEPORT socket option on IBM i. This would allow to load balance traffic between multiple jobs that listen on the same socket, better failover in case of job termination etc.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Future consideration

    Proxy connections support (FTP, sFTP, etc.)

    We need an easy way to handle Proxy connections for essential functions today such as information transfers with suppliers and customers. The use of Proxy is complex and not supported, requiring the use of external utilities, imported from AIX, fo...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Not under consideration

    Add Support for SIZE Subcommand in IBM i FTP Server

    Third-Party software (https://sqlbackupandftp.com/) automates the backups of SQL Server Databases, and the remote storage site can be designated as an FTP server. When attempting to upload the file, the software validates the upload by using the S...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

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