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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    Capture MAC address in QAUDJRN with QAUDLVL *NETSCK

    The *NETSCK audit level already provide information about socket connections made to the IBM i server, which includes from-and-to-IP-addresses. However, it does not capture the MAC address from where the socket request comes from. The reason why t...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Not under consideration

    Add the possibility for routing encrypted QZDASSINIT Jobs in 7.4

    Hello, the Cordes & Graefe KG asks for the possibility for routing encrypted QZDASSINIT Jobs in 7.4. As of now this feature is only announced / possible in 7.5, and we are only able to upgrade to 7.4 in the near future but would like to encr...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Not under consideration

    Novalink virtual fibre adapter creation

    Novalink seems to be unable to create a virtual fibre interfaces on vio server. The only option available is pvmctl vfc list. As the co-management flag is set to novalink, we cannot create a new virtual fibre interface in order to present tape to ...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

    Need to prevent port hijacking

    TCP/IP Ports Required for Access for Windows and Related Functions as specified in IBM technical document N1019667 should be reserved for those functions and never assigned to other functions by any IBM program. I do not consider this to be an enh...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Not under consideration

    vscsi mapping - IBMi to IBMi

    Possibility to create vscsi mapping between two IBM i LPAR's. Currently command "pvmctl scsi create" showing only parameters where vscsi server ( parent ) is VIOS and vscsi client ( lpar ) is IBMi. I'm asking for option which allow me to set paren...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    Extend support for NovaLink versions

    The product is used to virtualize POWER servers in order to run the company SW solution at many customers premises .It is delivered as part of the overall HW/SW bundle.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    Allow LPAR ID modification during Novalink Recovery partition data process

    The current Novalink recovery process has been created to accommodate the recovery of a physical server from a Novalink only managed deployment and greenfield clients who are fine with not implementing internal standards. This recovery process is ...
    over 7 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

    Allow prioritisation of DNS MX record over A record for SMTP server.

    Product - SMTP server, presumably part of 5770TC1. We have a situation where a destination DNS resolves to loopback and it causes QMSF to crash. It turns out that the A record has 127.0.0.1 as it's address and the MX record has the correct address...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

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