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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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IBM i IWS Client: Add option to allow unknown tags in response

My company used the Integrated Web Services (IWS) Client tool wsdl2rpg.sh to generate a *SRVPGM that we are using in production to consume a vendor partner's web service. Every few months the vendor releases enhancements to their web service, whic...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

single QR code or a centralized MFA configuration - All PVC Servers

At the customer environment, there are currently 17 PVC Applications in use. As part of the security enhancement plan, we are in the process of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all these applications. As per the current understan...
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - Better Image Handling and Deployment

The generic x86 ( or ANY ) deployment of PowerVC needs better image handling and deployment. It is unacceptable that you must maintain an image on each and every storage array for every PowerVC instance.
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

IWS web services PJ QZRCSRVS additional logging

Currently there is no easy way to correlate a PJ QZRCSRVS to a specific web service. Enhance web services identification by adding additional logging to PJ QZRCSRVS. Add a message in the job log with the IWS Web Server and Web Service information ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Prevent IWS from Refreshing when browser resizes

When you have IWS open and you resize the browser either manually or by press ctrl+f, f12, etc IWS is refreshed. Use Case: Speed up the the use of IWS.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

first IWS for IBMi setup screen forces entry of IBMi program library

The first Integrated Web Services for IBMi setup screen forces entry of an IBMi program library. This hard-defined library is used to locate the IBMi program. Please enhance the first IWS setup screen, to soft-locate the IBMi program via the libra...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

powervc 2.0.3 without high availabity addon

You can only install powervc single node with available extension cost $399. I want to install powervc 2.0.3 on a single node not a high available cluster environment for test purposes etc . there for i have to enabel the high available extension ...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Load balancing to Multiple IO Groups when creating/attaching Storage for a VM using SVC's

Hi We have 2 x Initiator Port Groups [ Each with 4 ports coming from dual SAN Fabrics via a Pair of VIO Servers] and 16 x Target SVC Stroage Port groups [ 4 ports with vWWNs in SVC where 2 ports from Fabric A and other two from Fabric B ]. If we t...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Bind to specific source address on Integrated Web Service Client calls

Add the ability to bind to a specific source IP address when making Integrated Web Service client calls. Use Case: Your IBM i could have several interfaces associated with it and you might not always want the Integrated Web Services Client to go o...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Volume Storage per VM

In the Virtual Machines page, the CPU & Memory allocations are displayed for each VM, it would be a useful addition to also include how much Storage (disk) space is allocated to each VM in this page.
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration