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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Add possibility to adjust shutdown command on Oracle database smart assist

We have a Oracle database configured with SmartAssist for Oracle. Now we have found out that in this specific case it would be better to shutdown oracle with shutdown abort instead of shutdown immediate. I have noticed that shutdown command is inc...
over 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

Request for Data Transfer Request Files's endcoding of IBM i Access Client Solutions(ACS)

BackgroundBecause of customer's security management reason,we are providing an arrangement that logs data transfer information by referring to Data Transfer Request Files.・Information logged are IP adress or system name,library and table name.That...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

NIM HA resource synchronization enhancements

• The current NIM HA feature provides resource synchronization as a single "atomic" operation. Meaning, the sync is sequential, cannot be iterative, and will error when resource duplication is unable to complete as part of the manual "push" operat...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Limit KSYS to discover disks attached to KSYS managed LPARs & using local cache when nothing changed since last discovery

Name of the software vendor: IBM is the product vendor but the product needs to discover and use EMC storage array disks using Storage Enabler softwareApplication name: VMRM-DR KSYSData store(s) for the application e.g. DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, Open Sou...
about 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Update BIND in AIX

We use AIX as our DNS backbone and all our DNS Servers are running on AIX. Now we need features in BIND that have been released many years ago (e. g. DNSSEC), but AIX 7.2 still ships BIND 9.4.1, the same as AIX 7.1 and AIX 6.1 (!). Even BIND 9.8 w...
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

CMC: Capability to schedule/push periodic mailers

- Today, client needs to login to CMC and need to manually pull usage data from CMC console.- In an actual production environment, there are different people responsible for administrator, capacity management & billing. - Access to CMC is desi...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered

On HMC format USB storage device using command line

on the Hardware Management Console is not possible to format USB storage device, or delete the content using CLI.If trough WEB console is possible to format USB storage device,why is not possible to do this in CLI?
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

IPTRACE and TCPDUMP need to record in PCAPNG format

PCAPNG is the new format being used by wireshark to view network traffic. Encoding iptraces and tcpdumps in this format will allow better manipulation of packet trace files by customers and network support personnel at IBM and/or worldwide.
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

AIX jfs2 scsi unmap support

jfs2 does not support scsi unmap feature
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Provide ability to specify timeout for viosvrcmd command

HMC viosvrcmd command uses a global timeout when running vios commands. The timeout is 10 minutes. However, when running backupios command via viosvrcmd the command simply times out before completing the backup. By adding a timeout option to viosv...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

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