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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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Navigator for i - Trivializing SIEM Integration

Problem Statement Network and Security Operation Centers have a high desire to utilize SIEM technologies to centralize the logging of health, service status, system status, etc... of various appliances (both hard and software) in the enterprise. A...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

WRKPTFGRP vs. DSPPTFGRP

The service below requires the user to be authorized to the WRKPRTGRP. But the service only list information not changing anything, so why not only require authorization to DSPPTFGRP? Improvement suggestion to IBM… SELECT CURRENT SERVER CONCAT ' i...
5 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Change Y axis Graph History

It whould be usefull if the Y axis can be set to 100% in performance Graph History in IBM Navigator for i. There is a tab what should do the but this button does not respond to the input.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

CMC alerting into e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, etc. .

CMC notifies customers by e-mail. However, most customers use a central monitoring application such as Nagios, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, etc.. CMC alerts should also be sent to the customer's monitoring application. Which the IT-Operations team is mo...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Submitted

IBM i Services for the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS)

IBM i is moving into the direction of adding SQL service to nealry every part of the operating system, except for the Advanced Job Scheduler. To my knowledge there are none. Since the license simplification the use of the Advanced Job Scheduler is...
10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Overland-Tandberg, the industry supplier of RDX docks, has gone bankrupt and ceased operations. This caused the shipping stop of RDX for all Power10 products. RDX was very popular in the Italy market, it was the backup solution for all entry Power models. No other existing alternative to RDX is so cheap, easy to use and functional as RDX was. IBM could mitigate the impact of the RDX issue making the USB Flash drives (memory keys or thumb drives) a valid alternative for backups. It will be a customer decision to pursue such kind of solution for the backup (for example a customer could decide to use the USB drive only as an Alternate IPL device) but IBM must make this option reasonable and feasible. The requirement for IBM is to certify the USB drive to work with flash devices larger than 256GB both with IBM i and AIX. Currently, the 256GB size limit https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-removable-media-optical-devices prevents many customers to consider the USB drive as a possible alternative of RDX.

RDX was very popular in the Italy market, it was the backup solution for all entry Power models with IBM i and there is not a valid alternative with low price
3 months ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted

Add 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO

Adding 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO would provide valuable information when investigating connectivity issues. It would also bring the QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO service inline with the information provided via the NETSTAT *CNN co...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

Granular API Token Management in CMC

The current IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) API token system provides limited control over access permissions. We propose enhancing the token management capabilities to provide greater flexibility and security: Multiple API Tokens: Allow users ...
4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Retrieving Events/Alerts in CMC from API

Currently, the IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) provides notifications of events and alerts only via email and SMS. This limits the ability to integrate CMC with other monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems. We propose adding a RESTful AP...
4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

SRCSTMF parameter for CRTDSPF

As we are using more and more modern ways and tools to develop our software, it really hurts that one has to copy DDS sources to a member in a temporary source physical file in order to be able to create a display file. I’m pretty sure that it wou...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted