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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    Add VNC Server to IBM i YUM respository

    VNC Server allows to run a remote desktop on IBM i without using Terminal Server Use Case: With VNC Server & a lightweight WM we could run some useful tools "INSIDE" our IBM i, even from a browser (VNC-JAVA), like iACS, Firefox, xTERM...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

    Make XML Toolkit (5733XT2) OpenSource

    As IBM plans to end support for 57533XT2, please consider making the source code for it open for everyone. This could lead to the community to create and further develop the product. As the product is heavily based on the existing opensource proje...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Not under consideration

    SSO support for SSH

    SSH does not support SSO. For example when using ACS option "Tools" --> "Open Source Package Management" --> "Connect to SSH". Password is required. Use Case: See case TS004474058.
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

    Make Postgres 15.6 available in OpenSourceManagement

    the latest supported version of Postgres on IBMi is 12.17-1 but Postgres 12 is getting EOL on Nov 2024 when will Postgres 15.6 become available in OpenSourceManagement
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    SSP copy volume from one cluster to another

    I'm using 2 SSP clusters and I would like to have all my images volume available on both without need to re-install them from ISO. Actually a workaround exist creating free volume "dd" the first vol to /tmp, ftp this guy to other vios, and "dd" ba...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Port of tesseract OCR to the open source packages

    Tesseract optical character recognition engine port to IBM will provide convenience and lower costs in building image-processing applications. Reasons for this poer are the followingThe first reason is convenience -- the C++ version of Tesseract c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Planned for future release

    powerVM SSP check ability to resolve all nodes before expell them

    When a new node is added to a PowerVM_SSP cluster, all other nodes receive this information. But if this new node is not able to be resolved, existing nodes are expelled from the cluster.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Warning when reach the 16 nodes limit in SSP cluster

    There is a limit of 16 nodes in a SSP cluster, but you can add a 17th without any warning message. I think it would be better to be informed.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Third party URL for RPM repositories in "Manage Open Source Packages" in ACS

    The new feature in ACS for managing open source RPM packages is great. However, it only covers IBM delivered RPM from the official IBM site. There is many other open source packages out there used today as building blocks for modern applications ....
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 6 Not under consideration

    Ship Ruby with 5733OPS

    Include Ruby as 5733OPS option. Use Case: We need a clean build of Ruby MRI. We actually use JRuby to develop our API. With recent PASE improvements (GCC, ...), we want to leave JRuby to use Ruby MRI. Ruby MRI will increase performances of our pro...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

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