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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    Eliminate an IPL when changing system name

    Changing the system name via the CHGNETA command requires an IPL for the system name change to take affect. I would like to see this requirement removed and have the change either become active immediately, or after restarting TCP/IP services. Use...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Support direct attached fibre tape - power 10

    Many existing Power customers have direct attached fibre tape drives/libraries and VTL’s. Not having a supported adapter, on scale out p10, is a big problem. Requiring a fibre switch is both cost prohibitive and creates a support issue (no in-hous...
    over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

    OS command WRKSMTPEMM to get read version (DSPSMTPEMM)

    WRKSMTPEMM needs *ISYSCFG special authority - request a DSPSMTPEMM version that does not require the special authority Use Case: Many user now use SNDSMTOPEMM to send emails from Series i. The log from the command usage is found in WRKSMTPEMM. How...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Within the LDAP configuration we would like to deactivate the non-secure PORT 389 and only allow the PORT 636 to be active.

    Our common practice is to inactivate non-secure PORTs. We have an Enterprise Information Security team that performs RAPID 7 scans across our systems looking for non-secure ports. Within the Tivoli Directory Server for IBM i we want to inactivate ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Not under consideration

    New Product of Data Processing Unit DPU based on IBM Power 11 (or later Power processors) with Nvidia GPUs for the future Applications

    Building a new product of IBM and Nvidia Data Processing Unit, the suggested DPU may have the following description and capabilities: 1- Using IBM Power 11 instead of Intel Xeon or ARM will make the software licenses and the cyber security more ad...
    over 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    Evaluate if Nutanix on Power Systems is valid (again) with new workloads

    Nutainx runs quite many areas inside companies, like VDI but also databases and plain app-vms. In this scenario also offering Power Systems as HW nodes might make the usage of Power Systems easier for customers to implement/use for Linux and AIX.
    over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    Telnet Server Attributes for V7R4

    Currently there is no API to get telnet server attributes or SQL services in V7R4.The use case for this is for system parmeters docummentation. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1119123
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Not under consideration

    Report CPPEA69 on QSYSMSG

    Please report message CPPEA69 to QSYSMSG so we can monitor for it there along with our other critical hardware monitoring. Use Case: We recently had a link aggregation drop. Scouring QHSTLOG we found that one of the two lines reported it was down ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Not under consideration

    Add ability to "bind specific" most TCP/IP servers and clients

    When I serve up multiple TCP/IP interfaces (IBM i itself and the numerous Domino, WAS, etc it also supports) I would like the ability to "bind specific" many of the servers and clients such as telnet, ftp, CIMOM, etc.Numerous security issues:- Net...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 11 Not under consideration

    Local Internet Address Selection on EE SNA/IP APPC Controller Options

    on CRTCTLAPPC or CHGCTLAPPC, Link type*HPRIP; have need to be able to specify parameter LCLINTNETA in a more dynamic/transparent method. Large Environments with hundreds of LPARs; dozens of controllers and multiple IP addresses on each system; are...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

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