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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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Save 21 / Restore 21 End Option for Tape (*unload, *rewind *Leave)

Add an option to allow the selection to the Go Save menu Option 21 Entire System Save and Go Restore 21 Entire System Restore To add the ability to select the tape media End Option e.g. *unload, *rewind *Leave Use Case: This is particularly useful...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Future consideration

increase speed on DUPTAP and DUPMEDBRM positioning

Increase positioning speed during DUPTAP / DUPMEDBRM or change behavior of how it is done.Currently on each duplication operation the cartridge is rewound and drive reads from beginning every sequence until it reaches the desired seq. number to be...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 10 Future consideration

Add report overview for Quantum Safe Scanning

currently in the new version the quantum safe scan option is only able to display results for each system, would be great to have a massive overview for big server farms.
4 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

Provide an official and paid support line for the Opensource ClamAV with PowerSC

Customers in MEP, especially the Qatari banking sector, are looking for fully supported Anti-malware solution on IBM Power systems.Currently, it is doable via PowerSC with the Opensource ClamAV. However, ClamAV does not have official support chann...
11 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

CRTIMGCLG vs Server NAS

We manage a Outsourcing Services for Banking and Insurance Customers. Our policies and the customer directives request to save (all days) the application libraries and data libraries in multiple copies on the physical media tape. Now we save on th...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

GO SAVE 21,22,23 display improvement

GO SAVE options 20 and 21 display a screen to enter the tape device, etc. I believe option 22 uses the same screen. It appears all 3 options use the same display. Please display on that screen the actual option / option description chosen on the m...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

Allow Security Events from non-UI Agent sources

Provides a single point of information for security events
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

Provide MFA support for IBM Storage via PowerSC MFA

Useful because the customer does not need another MFA solution for his Power Systems and IBM Storage
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

Graphic tool or sql service to know the percentage of use of the tapes.

Currently there is no tool or any sql service that helps to know the percentage of use/free is a tape device. For now there is only this old method to calculate it. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-much-data-and-how-much-free-space-available-...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Submitted

Enhancements to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms command

Requesting the folloing additional functionaluty to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms search: - Please provide an option to ignore NFS Filesystems - Option to list the filesystems to scan - Option to ingore a list of filesystems in the scan
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release