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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    Allow PASSWORD(*NONE) users for native ODBC

    Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) is a base component of IBMi and uses Kerberos for single-signon (SSO). With EIM, user profiles are set to PASSWORD(*NONE) and authentication is done via Kerberos. The native ODBC driver does not support user profi...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 Future consideration

    Port .NET (Core) to IBM i via RPM

    Now that Mono runs on IBM i (thanks to Calvin Buckley again!), it should be possible to port .NET Core, which is now the main .NET Framework, to IBM i without such a big effort. Use Case: Porting lots of .NET Server Applications to IBM i, using DB...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance PASE APIs _ILECALL/_ILECALLX to Pass Operational Descriptors

    Allow _ILECALL() and _ILECALLX() to pass operational descriptors when calling an ILE procedure, if they are not already capable of this, and provide documentation. There is already a pointer field for the operational descriptor in the ILEarglist_b...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

    Low latency interpartion communication on Power.

    Idea is about improvement of inter-partition communication on Power. As a part of our internal PoC project we have been reqested to measure latency between virtual lpars running on one hardware ( POWER 9) and compare results with results between v...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Future consideration

    More visibility into ASP utilization across the system using NCDU and displaying it visually in Navigator

    Often it is challenging to find files that need to be cleaned up on a system; especially since these systems have been around for 40+ years. Using NCDU I can scan the Libraries, DLO, and IFS and see where my disk utilization is and drill down from...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    LPM exchanges vNIC servicing VIOS every time

    We are using two power systems with vNIC virtualisation. Because we want to know which vios is using which ethernet adapter we select vio1 for servicing vNICs running on adapter cards c1 and c2 and vio2 for servicing adapter cards c8 and c9 (examp...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Submitted

    Add subsystem support to SSHD attributes

    In order to isolate SSH jobs in their own subsystem, you must use the instructions documented in this article: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1014744 However, this requires that you start the SSHD with the /QOpenSys/usr/sbin/ss...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Future consideration

    IBM i OpenCV

    In order to make effective use of python on IBM i, porting of OpenCV, which is growing in demand, is required Use Case: Improve business efficiency by performing systematic customer recognition using face recognition and systematic product inspect...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

    Implement a virtual SAN switch in the PHYP

    Instead of passing a virtual WWN via NPIV, implement a virtual SAN switch and use the the VIOS FC adapters for ISLs. This would simplify the LPAR configurations (only one VFC per fabric, while preserving the redundancy vis-a-vis a VIOS failure/res...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM 0 Future consideration

    Set IBM i tagged I/O via api/cli/ansible

    The idea is based on setting up via api/cli or ansible tagged i/o for IBM i systems to allow automation of the deployment of such partitions
    11 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

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