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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    Provide virtual FTP directory

    Allow a user to be locked in a specific FTP directory... this directory should be his virtual root. Use Case: It is now possible to set an initial FTP directory via an exit program, however once logged on the user can still perform a cd /someother...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 22 Not under consideration

    SAML Intergration with CMC

    Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a standard for logging users into applications based on their identity in another context. This single sign-on (SSO) login standard has significant advantages over logging in using a username/password: ...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Enterprise Pools 2.0 access for non-admin users

    I would like to enable Enterprise Pools 2.0 app to non-admin users. If you create a new non-admin user and access Edit User panel, Enterprise Pools 2.0 app enablement button is grayed out. The popup message says "Only Admin users can access Enterp...
    over 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

    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

    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

    PEP 2.0 Delete Pool 2FA

    Currently, a PEP 2.0 pool can be deleted with a single click of a button and an acknowledgement. I would suggest to add a 2FA (2nd factor authentication via email etc) before any pool can be deleted to eliminate the chance of a mistake.
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    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

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