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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.

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All User Designed Plugins for Navigator for i Dashboard

The Navigator for i Dashboard comes with six pre-defined monitors. CPU Utilization, Page Faults, Disk Utilization, Disk Pool Usage, Jobs & Operator Messages. I would like to allow ISV's / End Users to create their own monitors to in this view....
over 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

Request work-around for CPU Meltdown and Spectra Issue

Platform========Power System 7, 7+, 8, 9AIX 7.XVIOS 2.X Description===========Samsung Electronics Global-ERP system has a concern about CPU Meltdown and Spectre Patch issue.(CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5754) As you know, i-fixes for...
about 7 years ago in PowerVM 6 Delivered

Add Db2 Spatial Extender like functionality to IBMi SQL

In one of our applications we have geo_fencing functionality. When a vehicle enters a location, marked by 4 edges (GPS locations) it shows up on the map. Because of the lack of a geography Data Type like in other SQL variants (Microsoft, DB2 for L...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Delivered

OS400 NetBIOS protocol to be disabled while allowing CIFS to work

Netbios protocol has been deprecated for security reason and from internal security policy we need to disable it.This problem is already know to IBM : https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020677Opening a RFE in order to restrict th...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Delivered

Additional Information From SYSCOLUMNS

The output provided by querying SYSCOLUMNS is missing key information that can only be retrieved via API calls run directly on the IBM i. For example, the format of date / time columns is not present, and there may be others. The information retur...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

Request for better messaging during the liveupdate (LKU) process

Apple needs a way to determine if AIX LKU is taking too long during the blackout phase. A separate idea AIX-I-685 is open for adding a timeout value, and this RFE is open to break out the separate request from Apple for more information during the...
over 1 year ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Write CRTPGM binding result into the EVFEVENT file

The CRTPGM issues error CWX9001 at binding time when the allocated memory for a procedure exceeds its limits. However the RDi Error List tab uses the EVFEVENT file to display the compilation results, but the binding fails and object is not created...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Delivered

SYSTOOLS.GROUP_PTF_DETAILS - add DATE type column for PTF_INCLUDED_IN_GROUP_DATE

SYSTOOLS.GROUP_PTF_DETAILS has a column PTF_INCLUDED_IN_GROUP_DATE, but the data is in a VARCHAR(10) type field, and formatted MM/DD/YY. This makes sorting and filtering a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Use Case: Ability to sort and fil...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Add new option for viosupgrade script to execute unattended and to stop before the reboot of the alternate disk

The migration from vios 2.2.6.4x to 3.1.0.21 is done using the viosupgrade script, which creates the alternate rootvg on the spare disk and transfers some data for the upgrade to be used after reboot.As designed today, it will not stop before rebo...
over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

Ability to change FTP banner info

Showing the default FTP banner is a major security issue. It immediately identifies the platform by stating QTCP in the banner. Customization would hide what the platform is. Use Case: See description.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered