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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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    Add auditing to successful authentications

    IBM i records failed authentications, which appear in the audit journal entries, but is missing a unified entry type for successful authentications. From an auditing perspective, this makes it hard to comprehensively track and report on successful...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    Extend viosecure.ctl config file with interface, address, and description fields.

    The viosecure -firewall command work now only as a port filter setup. In the /home/ios/security/viosecure.ctl there are no options to set ip addresses or ranges, neither a interface can be selected where the filter rules should be applied. It appl...
    9 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

    Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

    CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    IBM I DCM API should be created to Delete old or Expired Certificates from the DCM Certificate Store

    When Managing Certificates on many IBM I systems, we need the capability to remove old and Expired Certificates from the DCM Certificate Store.Looking at the available APIs for DCM https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/digital-certificate-manager-apis...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    LPM for LPARs with vNIC causes false call home

    When LPM moving LPARs whith vNIC adapters to a different power server during the removal stage we see errlog entries in the hosting VIO server like: Jun 19 08:50:29 ent16 T LNC2ENT_EEH_EXIT EEH recovery exitJun 19 08:50:28 sysplanar0 T PCI_RECOVER...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Future consideration

    Add flag to viosbr backup command to exclude security files

    The viosbr command has been expanded to backup all of the trusted AIX file sets (twice) which has increased the size of the tarred, zipped backup file 1,000 times (not a typo). A flag has been created to not use these files when restoring but the ...
    about 2 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Notify when DCM certificate is near to expire

    The improved DCM tool, like its predecessor, does not have notification functionality a few days before certificates expire. It would be very helpful if you can notify us via email or at least in QSYSOPR and set how many days in advance we want yo...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 8 Not under consideration

    Add an additional special authority *NONSYS

    With the introduction of a SPCAUT *NONSYS which which should include *ALLOBJ WITHOUT operating system libraries the system administrator should be able to easily seperate e.g. developers from system administrators. This option would avoid accident...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

    Enhance Security of QUSEADPAUT system value and USEADPAUT in general

    This is similar in intent to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4498 In support of 'deny by default' security principle, arrangements should be made to only generate programs and service programs with USEADPAUT(*YES), when A) explicitly requested ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    extend AIX ARTEX catalog for rdma capable SR-IOV Logical ports and vNIC backing device (adapter/ofedroce)

    SRIOV VF RDMA is NOT supported on most LP. nevertheless the default value of rdma is desired and increase VIOS memory footprint in large environments.
    over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

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