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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    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

    Add a WRKFCNUSG QIBM_QTMF_SERVER_REQ* option to restrict the system ftp subcommand.

    Any ftp client can log into the server and use the ftp subcommand system to determine the name of the OS and what level it is running. IBM does try to obfuscate the information provided by using the name of an OS long discontinued (OS/400) instead...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Not under consideration

    Enhancing Maximum storage for trace of TRCTCPAPP command

    This RFE is now created based on the feedback from case #TS005034124 where we are not able to run the trance commands due to insufficient storage to keep the trace output/logs. Running the Trace commands trctcpapp *smtpclt *on and trctcpapp *msf *...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Cannot set security for NTP protocol on IBM i

    IBM i is connected to the network core switch as a client getting the time using NTP protocol. It is also a server for the rest of the application servers providing the time for them.An audit finding was found that NTP on the IBM i is not using an...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Not under consideration

    Support for native tape attach on Power 10

    Are customers now forced to purchase a switch to attach lto tape libraries to Power 10?
    over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

    Add Internal LTO Tape drive to Next generation of Power System

    Add internal LTO Tape drive to next generation of IBM POWER Servers. Especially the P05 class machine.
    about 7 years ago in Power Systems Design 5 Not under consideration

    Get Elastic Capacity on Demand CoD code via an api call.

    This is the only missing step to a larger automation idea to automatically allocate Elastic Capacity on Demand to a LPAR with a shell script. I have solved adding a CoD code to a frame and activating the resource and adding it to a LPAR through th...
    about 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Under review

    IBM i - Improve NFS performance on 632B device and allow Jumbo Frames

    When reading or saving data to/from NFS server on any NFS server performance is slow if we use MOUNT command, but we can use Jumbo Frames to mitigate. When using STRNETINS or trying to backup to a virtual optical 632B device connected to NFS serve...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 6 Not under consideration

    Add SMTP attribute to limit number of outbound emails per minute.

    Many 3rd party relay services have limits on the number of inbound emails allowed in a specified time frame from a mail server. We use SendLayer to relay emails from our IBM i server. SendLayer has a 250 email limit per minute. Would be a nice enh...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Not under consideration

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