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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    Integrate SAML and/or OIDC authentication options for IBMi (5250/Navigator/IFS/Printer Output/SSH)

    Many businesses are increasingly demanding that standard authentication processes are adhered to for all applications/servers within their environment. Whether we agree with that approach or not, there is extraordinary pressure to fit IBMi into th...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Security 8 Not under consideration

    IBM i DCM - Last used timestamp for each certificate

    For the purpose of housekeeping the certificate stores in IBM i DCM, it would be very useful to enhance DCM to be able to show the "Last Used Time Stamp" and also "Use Count" for EACH certificate in the store so that system admin can efficiently s...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    Enhancements in partition migration between different FC environments

    Hello,many times, we work in environments where partitions are migrated between servers that do not share the same hardware configuration (e.g., fewer FC cards, Ethernet cards, etc.).If the source server has a mapping of one virtual FC (vFC) adapt...
    28 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Would like to see NVMe over TCP/IP supported in the IBM Power Hardware and IBM Storage offering lines

    NVMe/TCP is to provide a low latency, shared storage solution to take advantage of existing high speed network infrastructure. Would like to see this supported within the VIOS so that all supported OS's ( AIX / IBM i / Linux on Power ) can take ad...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 7 Future consideration

    Add Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

    IBM i 7.4 introduced APIs that support Native Digital Certificate Management, I would like IBM to build on this a deliver a natively supported ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) protocol support to allow IBM i to automatically req...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

    viosupgrade command -- Add flag to auto-restore files saved by -g flag

    ** Update ** IBM have already catered for my "Idea" as they've provided the "-F forcecopy" flag on the "viosupgrade" command which achieves exactly what I'm after. Please "IGNORE" this idea As IBM already has a flag ( viosupgrade -g ) to automatic...
    4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Submitted

    Support for SFP mix in 4-port adapter EN24, EN26

    Actual 4-port adapters EN24 and EN26 don't support mix of SFP. Many customers require to split management network usually based on 1Gb Ethernet from 10/25Gb access ports. 4-port adapters are ideal product to have dual VIO setup with pairs of these...
    about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Submitted

    IBM i SSO authentication against Azure Global AD

    Actually, a valid Network Authentication service and EIM configuration permits to use SSO on IBM i through different Windows AD realms for the users to authenticate to the IBM i using their windows usernames. New times requires new technologies fo...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

    Tcp server certificate hot reload

    A few days ago I read an article reporting the future intention to go to decrease the duration of certificates, it would be important to make sure that the application of such certificates would not require the shutdown and subsequent activation o...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Under review

    Issue audit journal entry when Password Level 4 hash is generated at signon.

    For high availability replication products, knowledge is needed when a user profile changes. In most cases an audit journal entry is issued. However, when both the source and target systems are at OS 7.5 or 7.6 and a user profile does not yet have...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

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