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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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Configure the IBM i SMTP Client to use SMTP Authentication without SSL/TLS

We try to configure the IBM i SMTP Client to use SMTP Authentication without SSL/TLS We can send the email to a receipt that having the same domain as sender. However, when sending to a receipt that with different domain, the receipt cannot get th...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Delivered

NPIV VFC driver change request

AIX NPIV VFC driver must be more aggressive in error recovery in cases where VIOS is not servicing commands in a timely manner. The issue can be easily recreated by stopping the VIOS in kdb.
over 6 years ago in AIX 6 Delivered

Add image deploy on exsisting lpar in powerVC

Using PowerVC we can not deploy image on existing lpar. Deployment will use only for new lpar. We want to use PowerVC to deploy images on existing lpar same like Nim restore image.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

NEED ADDED FEATURES FOR AIX TRUSTED EXECUTION

Hi Team, We use AIX trusted execution in our environment for some of critical AIX servers. The application is such that it undergoes some or other update very frequently and we have to repeatedly whitelist files in TSD manually. This becomes tedio...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 4 Delivered

Shortcut in Iprojects for Remote Actions - Push Selected, Compile Commands

The Possibility to define a Shortcut for the IProjects Remote Actions like Push Selected, Compile Commands and others.There is a Shortcut for Remote System Explorer - LPEX (Standard definition STRG+Shift+C - Compile), but NOT for the IProjects Vie...
about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

SQL Services view for IFS shares

Have need for an SQL view to list share and path information on an IBM i server. Use Case: SOX auditors want us to monitor for /ROOT shares created on the system, because they see these as a security threat. I've created a homegrown view utilizing...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Request to fix chauthent command

Running 'chauthent -std' or 'chauthent -k5 -std' willuncomment shell/kshell/login/klogin entries in inetd.conf and refresh inetd automatically. This behavior needs to change, to avoid inadvertantly activating non-secure or otherwise unwantedservic...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

labels for fiber channel ports

Can you introduce labels for fiber channel adapters/ports in HMC as we have it already for SR-IOV NIC´s? This feature for SR-IOV NIC´s is really great and i like to have it also for fiber channel as we have to deal with different SAN fabrics in ou...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Monitor unexpected VM state changes

According to Case TS003725611 we need a way to monitor state of VMs. Sometimes, for unknown reason, machine change its state from READY_TO_MOVE to something different (INIT, READY). We'd like to know about these events.
over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

PowerSC profile for HMC

PowerSC agent/profile for HMC to apply and monitor DOD compliance on our HMCs.
over 4 years ago in PowerSC 5 Delivered