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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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Validate storage for VM from a PowerVC view

We have some issues when storage is being removed before a decommission of VM has ben run from PowerVC ending up in the playbook failing since all storage tasks are failing. It would be of high interest that one from PowerVC could validate that wh...
about 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

%DECH enhancement for length and decimal places

The idea is to enhance %DECH() BIF: a) allow the the use %len() and %decpos() for parameters 2 and 3 Example: dcl-s n1 zoned(10:2) inz; n1 = %dech( 12345 / 1000 : %len(n1) : %decpos(n1) ); b) make parameters 2 and 3 optional and retrieve the lengt...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

SAVLIBBRM and SAVOBJBRM *DTACPR option

We have raised a call TS015223912 for the data compression on SAVLIB and SAVLIBBRM. It is found that SAVLIB/SAVOBJ have 7 options for user to choose the compression rate, but SAVLIBBRM/SAVOBJBRM only have 3. There is an Command for SAVLIBBRM and S...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

Show program lib/name in webservice overview

Currently only the description name of the webservice is shown in the HTTP Admin server. This requires you to click on properties for each individual service to see to which library it is referring which is slow in the web interface. Use Case: Cur...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

VIOS Logging to a syslog endpoint

We are being pressured by our security teams to provide logging from the VIOs to a syslog endpoint that feeds splunk.We have a config from support that would allow this, but it has to be implemented via the oem_setup environment and is not support...
about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Future consideration

rendev updates

I would like to have the rendev command to be able to change rootvg disk(s) and take effect after reboot.
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

ACS Printer Output Favorites

Daily operations on the IBM i require our staff to move/delete/download spool files filtered on several output queues, Userdata and Job Information. Many of these filters are the same every day and it is very time consuming to change the informati...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

IBM i MULTIPATH SAN BEHAVIOR

Hello,Following the opening of an IBM i OS incident, we were told that we could not specify at the IBM i level the switching behavior between the different SAN paths. If on a loss of SAN path the automatic switch to another SAN path suits us, we d...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Storage 6 Future consideration

EPP 2.0 subpools

Today only one single Enterprise Pool is possible. We want to divide a pool into subpools, for example for different subsidiaries or departments. It should be possible to share the base resources across all systems, but people should only be able ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

Implement TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP in Db2 for i

Other IBM database products have a method TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP that can be used to convert a timestamp from the local time zone to UTC, with awareness of the DST rules in effect on the date in question. Example Knowledge Center page from IBM Big SQL 5...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration