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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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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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DCM - allow automation of Let's Encrypt certificates

The Let's Encrypt certificate authority is emerging as a free and open minimum starting point for SSL certificates. However they only issue 90 day certificates which currently would mean manually installing a new certificate at least 4 times per y...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Delivered

Critical Message Filter on Operator Message for IBM Navigator for i Interface

The Dashboard within IBM Navigator for i has a window for tracking critical messages. This count is only reduced when the messages are deleted from QSYSOPR. As this message queue contains so many messages, this window can become meaning less. It w...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Replicate PDM compile submitted job naming

When a compile is submitted to batch in PDM, the job takes the name of the source member. When submitting a compile in RDi, the job uses the job description as the submitted job name. Use Case: Submit a compile in RDi and the job name should be th...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Graph History Stacked Charts by Month: Stack by day of the week (Sun thru Sat) rather than day of the month (1-31)

Graph History stacked charts, when stacked by month, are not helpful as they are stacked by day of the month (1, 2, 3….). However, day of the month generally doesn't align with business activity. It would b much better for the charts to be stacked...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 4 Delivered

Hover : exclude comments from beeing shown on definitions

Actually the hover function shows comments that the editor thinks may be relevant to a definition. It picks up any comment lines immediately preceding the item being defined.It should be possible to stop that, for example by inserting one/two blan...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Add full statement pop up when hovering over Show Statements plan cache list of statements like iNav

When using Show Statements window and I have a list of SQL statements from the plan cache, I used to have a pop up window showing the full statement of the one I am hovering over in iNav.That does NOT happen when doing the same in ACS, SQL perform...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Additional Virtual Fiber Channel Cards

Individual virtual fiber channel cards, which are created per LPAR by PowerVC, can only support 32 or 64 LUNs (depending on the OS type/version). We often have machines that require hundreds of LUNs and it is very frustrating that we cannot do thi...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Need description field in Storage Template

In PowerVC there is no field for adding a description for a storage template e.g. Quality desciptorc etc.
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

iACS - Run SQL Scripts - Display timestamp when query was executed in results window

The query results window does not give any indication of what time the query was run, so it can be confusing when displaying the same query run multiple times which results belong to which execution. Please display the timestamp when the query was...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

AIX LKU - general performance improvement during attach/detach, currently too slow.

Improving AIX Live Kernel Update, with PowerVC, general performance would benefit many clients, but is particularly needed here due to the scale of the environment and the challenges of keeping up with code rollout schedules. Currently LKU is taki...
about 1 year ago in AIX 1 Delivered