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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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add PHP port to RPMs

we need a port of PHP for RPMs. I do not want to replace Zend, but with it being a licensed program it is "harder" to get installed. the ported PHP would not need db2 support and all the bells & whistles Zend provides.we need a simple IFS only...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 Delivered

Integrated Web Services Server Start Up

We are a provider of Healthcare applications utilizing IBM's Power Server running IBM i (v7r2m0 or better) OS. The HCS application uses IBM Websphere Application server express to serve up Java Script application to the users via a browser. Data r...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

DB2 SQL Engine should pass the descriptor operator information to RPGLE so that ALL *SRVPGM procedures can be called

IBM talks about application modernization but the main player SQL (stored procedures and functions) can not properly execute the majority of our RPGLE service programs. Most service programs heavily rely on the %PARMS function to determine the num...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

Provide standardise approach for lsmpio metadata expansion

Currently there is no public information about what extended metadata attributes can be obtained from the storage to facilitate OS admin manipulation of storage.For example lsmpio -q presents on some devices the name of the volume and there could ...
about 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Remove TLSv1.1 from CIMOM

Remove TLSv1.1 from Port 5989 and 5990 (CIMOM) due to security requirement. Use Case: Remove TLSv1.1 from Port 5989 and 5990 (CIMOM) due to security requirement.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Delivered

improvement to SEND_EMAIL, multiple recipents and attachments

Make it possible to use multiple e-mail adresses in TO_EMAIL, also add CC_EMAIL and BCC_EMAIL. Make it possible to send multiple attachments in the ATTACHMENT field.
11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

PowerVC - Image import/export should use POWER compression engine

In a hybrid cloud world more and more images (OVAs) will be created and exchanged between multiple PowerVC instances or with a public cloud.As the compression of this large images takes some time, it would be good to shorten the time by using the ...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC-Zoing policy for multipe storages connected to VM-Challenges with current zoning policy

PowerVC is being deployed in a leading Bank in India. Customer wants to have zoning policy where in powervc should zone only targets of individual storages with initiator/initatorvfc instead of multiple storages zoned together in one zone.current ...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

List Exit Programs via an SQL statement by Categories

Allow SQL statement to query all Exit Programs by TCPiP Categories and Ports: - FTP (tcp 21)- TELNET (tcp 23 & 992)- CIFS (tcp 445)- etc Use Case: We run VMWare NSX in our environment only allowing necessary ports opened for connections to our...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

QR code with a Swiss cross as the identifying feature

I want printing an QR code with a Swiss cross as an identification feature or with other logo. We have not found a way to create a variable QR code with a logo with DDS and RPG. https://www.iso-20022.ch/lexikon/swiss-qr-code/https://www.paymentsta...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 27 Delivered