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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    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

    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

    Dynamically raise maximum virtual slot numbers

    Please add ability to raise maximum virtual slot numbers of VIO and client LPARs dynamically without need of LPAR restart.
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVM 2 Not under 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

    IBM should publish information how PowerVM is charged in Power Systems

    There has been confusion on how PowerVM is charged and it causes customers to pay more than they should.
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Functionality already exists

    PowerVM to be able to override local optical devices when executing a LPM/ SRR

    LPM and SRR can't function when a LPAR has a VTOPT# device
    about 8 years ago in PowerVM 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

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