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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 Group-Tags in dynamic inventory in powervm_inventory

Hello, Grouptags are a cool feature in the HMC GUI. Unfortunately, they are no longer available via the CLI. -> https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-554 It would be great to have this feature in the dynamic HMC Ansible inventory ...
28 days ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement

IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement Title: Automated or Centralized Deconfiguration of SR-IOV Virtual Functions (VFs) Across LPARs for Adapter Maintenance Description: In environments using SR-IOV with vNICs and re...
5 months ago in PowerVM Submitted

Integrated File System tool: Allow us to change the size of the font

In ACS's Integrated File System tool the font is too small. I want to be able, like I can in other ACS tools, adjust the size of the font.
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Not under consideration

Get the navigator for i to the client how we use it in the IBM i access for windows.

Some customer dont let or permit the access to IBM i navigator for i for permission of firewall, security or compliance etc..... a good better could be get back the manage of the navigator to include in the IACS Solutions, and use a another port t...
13 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Perform integrity check of VIOS Fix Packs on install and/or transfer to HMC

During a recent VIOS update, we downloaded a fix pack ISO using Fix Central and transferred it to the HMC. Turns out that the ISO was partially corrupted.It was the correct size, and was mountable in various operating systems.However, many files w...
24 days ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

Enhance %CHAR or create a new built-in that referrences an array as a character string

RPG IV currently lacks a clean, safe, and expressive way in free-form RPG to treat an array (or a contiguous subset of an array) as a character string. This gap is most visible when attempting to replicate the behavior of the legacy MOVEA opcode, ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Not under consideration

Add OVRSCOPE to OVERRIDE_INFO

Please add the Override Scope, parameter OVRSCOPE in most OVRxxx commands, as a column to the results returned by the Override Information View, OVERRIDE_INFO. I find it surprising that this was missed from the specifications as most of us who nee...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Add "Inband" instead of empty Space in HMC GUI when Inband is in use

If inband is in use on P11 machine you see only empty space instead of an IP Address....maybe you can add the word Inband into the IP Address field when Inband is in place rather IP Address. Thx vince
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Standardize RPG IV ENDxxx opcodes with END-xxx syntax

All "new" RPG features use the END-xxxx syntax. opcodes currently do not use that syntax. It gets confusing to new developers and grey-haired coders as well for new features when in some cases ENDMON is specified, but in other END-PROC is required...
13 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Not under consideration

Stop generating alerts each time "stopsrc -s IBM.SoftwareRM" is run

When IBM.SoftwareRM is stopped gracefully it creates a serviceable event that then alerts notification recipients as configured on the HMC. When we installed the recent HIPER ifix for SoftwareRM across our estate it generated a flood of alerts. We...
15 days ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted