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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    Image import via OVA with two storage-provider

    If you do a hostbase mirroring (in AIX mostly standard) you have it mostly mirrored over two storages(provider). You want to export this image. The OVA format can be used to export two disks. Unfortunately, PowerVC stops the process.
    8 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    PowerVC container based (docker/podman)

    To simplify the installation and update procedure and get more stability. This also reduces the dependencies on the operating system/repos.
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs

    Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs so it is easier to copy & paste information such as job names, output queue, etc. Candidate dialogs: Job properties, debug properties, etc.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Configuring IPG to be exclusive for Tape Storage Templates

    Most of the Power customers follow the best practice of segregating Disk and Tape traffic onto separate VIOS FC ports. Although PowerVC currently allows for specifying an IPG on Tape storage template (CLI), this IPG can be used by other Storage Te...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Improve the Reconnect process for RDi

    When working remotely for the past 2 years I connect to our corporate network via VPN prior to opening RDi. Everything works fine in RDi until my VPN connection drops. At this point RDi still shows as connected. When I reconnect the VPN and try to...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Remember previous user ids when setting service entry point

    When setting up service entry points, use the same control for the user id & condition so that previously used values can be re-selected easily. Most of the other fields on the Set Service Entry point dialog allow selection of previously used ...
    4 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Possibility to create IFS objects filters

    Because many sources for IBM objects e.g programs, commands can be stored in IFS directories, it would be good to have possibility to define IFS directories and files filters like ones available for objects.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

    More detailed user and role management in Power VC (based on Openstack Identity)

    More detailed role and user management. In large installations and in environments with high security restrictions, such as banks, it is crucial to very precisely manage user rights and their roles, so I am asking you to expand these functionaliti...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Show tables and columns used in embedded SQL statements in structure view

    The structure view displays in an extremely complete way all the uses of files, formats and zones by the native instructions (dcl-f, read, update ...). On the other hand, all the files and zones used by static SQL statements do not appear, which ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Add 'compare' function when working with IFS source.

    When editing a source member that contains unsaved changes, you can press ESC and type 'compare' to highlight those changes. With IFS source, it doesn't do anything. I'd like the 'compare' function to work with IFS source just like it does with so...
    10 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

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