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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 210

Don't fail if SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET is empty

When SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET returns an empty table it fails with an SQL State VSP05 and Vendor Code -438. Modify the function to don't fail when it happens. Example: VALUES SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET( PATH_NAME =>'/home/csvtest',...
10 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Correct the way AIX NFS4 client constructs its clientID, so that it is persistent across LPMs, as it is required to be.

Current behavior/design Currently, the clientID generated by AIX NFS4 client can possibly change after an LPM. This is because of the current design. In the current design, NFS4 client uses the nodeID as a part of the clientID, and the nodeID can ...
17 days ago in AIX 1 Submitted

Add an option to prevent QDLS from being used

IBM is recommending to stop using QDLS since 2010. Symmetric Multi Processing and using QDLS are also not a good combination. Sun setting QDLS is maybe a bridge to far, but giving the option to prevent QDLS from being mounted during the IPL, is ma...
8 days ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Submitted

EIM Windows domain source mapping from CRTUSRPRF

On CRTUSRPRF we have the parameter EIMASSOC. This lets us create an EIM identifier and add the current system as a TARGET. Every new user that is created need to also have the windows domain as a SOURCE in order for single signon to work. This mea...
8 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

HMC delivering CPU detail through CLI, REST API

Key points:- Operational Efficiency: Direct access to CPU speed via HMC (CLI/REST API) eliminates the need for agents on client LPARs, simplifying workflows and reducing operational overhead.- Resource Optimization: Bypassing agents frees up LPAR ...
23 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
4 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Disable update of AIX 7.2 with AIX 7.3 packages

If someone by mistake chooses AIX 7.3 LPP source or image to update packages on AIX 7.2, AIX (installp) starts installing the packages from AIX 7.3 on AIX 7.2. The result is non-functioning system which has half AIX 7.2 and half AIX 7.3 packages. ...
11 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enhance the 5250 console support provided by the HMC (remote) to support 132-column display.

For a limited function IBM i LPAR (such as an FSFC target) where, for security reasons the only advisable interactive connection is via an HMC console, having a 132 column screen would provide an immeasurable benefit in viewing 132 position spoole...
20 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Monitor > System monitor on more nodes

In the old Client Access it was possible to have more nodes on the same system monitor grafic. (see the attach). in the new Navigator for I, we only can see grafics for single node in different windows.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Request Network cards SFP stats used for VIOS servers

VIO servers have fcstat that displays stats for the transceiver (SFP), so far I have not found a complement for network cards SFPs. I have found that ethtool for Linux does display a lot of info for the SFP's, and need this info for network SFPs, ...
23 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.