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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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Support of modern remote copy function - Policy-based Replication (PBR)

FlashSystem reference architectures are now based on Policy-based Replication (PBR). Policy-based Replication replaces Global Mirror, using volume group and no longer consistency group (replication) commands. This new Storage function should be su...
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Enable fc_mappings feature support in VMRM to be able to manage Migration between physical servers in Hostgroup which have multiple paths to disk

Everybody deploying VMRM can benefit from it. In fact this is a product limitation for VMRM as the LPM SRR feature directly launched from HMC works properly while VMRM fails to manage this case. This prevents VMRM form managing properly the autom...
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 4 Planned for future release

Add HMC authentication testing and displaying HMC authentication error output

When the HMC password is changed manually through the HMC but KSYS's stored HMC password is not updated, the auto-nightly discover/verify processes continue to succeed until the HMCs are rebooted, which disconnects KSYS's authenticated session. (1...
8 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Db2 for i GeoServer extension

We need to deliver geospatial data to the company via GeeoServer but we haven't found an extension that allows us to use DB2 for i as a datastore. There is a extension to DB2, but is for DB2 LUW and do not work with DB2 for i. (https://docs.geoser...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Support for multiple VIOS pairs in 1KSYS of VM Recovery Manager HA

Currently VM Recovery Manager HA supports only one VIOS pair per KSYS.In an environment where multiple VIOS pairs are exist on a single node, it is necessary to configure a separate KSYS for each VIOS pair.Therefore, please improve the function so...
almost 6 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

timer_* APIs in PASE

Software is starting to increasingly use the timer family of functions such as timer_create. These allow for accurate timing that manual timekeeping wouldn't allow for. For example, many profilers (such as Excimer for PHP) and even GNU coreutils a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

Google Pub/Sub support on IBMi OS

We have tried to develop a solution to interact with Google Pub/Sub directly on the IBMi and have been unable to due to restrictions related to the processor on the IBMi. This has included attempts to run a Python coded solution on the IBMi direct...
4 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Submitted

IBM should "open source" the source code for LPPs when they are withdrawn from marketing

Over the years, I have seen several IBM LPPs for OS/400 (now IBM i) that were withdrawn from marketing and eventually had support dropped -- for whatever reasons. I think it would be a great way for IBM to educate the world on how to build robust ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Not under consideration

PASE IP Tools

We need IP tools like ping, traceroute, netstat, ifconfig, etc in PASE environment, so we can improve scripting Use Case: When creating PASE environments/containers for users developing on OSS programming languages sometimes we need to check basic...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

Port native boost libraries ot IBM i for xgboost

I cannot install xgboost (https://pypi.org/project/xgboost/) `pip3 install xgboost` because the native boost libraries have not been ported.This is an extract of the error message (which is attached): XGBoostLibraryNotFound: Cannot find XGBoost Li...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Planned for future release