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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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SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 11 Future consideration

HANIM extend takeover resource types i.e. vios

In a HANIM environment the takeover functionality is limited to resource type standalone i.e. classic AIX client.
9 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
9 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Future consideration

Add a field in the SYSTEM_STATUS* SQL services that shows the whether the LPARs Attention LED is on or off.

In the current services:SYSTEM_STATUS view, SYSTEM_STATUS_INFO view and SYSTEM_STATUS table function. The ATTENTION_LIGHT light column only shows whether the SRC panel has a SRC in it. The manuals were recently updated to reflect the correct defin...
9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. Furthermore It would be nice to have a possibility to assign or replace certifica...
9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Printer writer job is unable to recover after a preprocessed spool file is deleted unexpectedly

I observed that our writer job occasionally encounters the CPF6DF5 error after a temporary spool file is deleted in the output queue during preprocessing according to IBM Support. When this error occurs, all subsequent spools entering the queue ar...
10 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Authority Collection - Size of the collections

Please add options/columns into existing SQL views (object_statistics maybe?) or add new SQL views to see how much the IBM i Authority Collection repositories actually take space. Currently there is no such option and the security administrator/IB...
10 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

Add OPEN *ALL to RPG to open all files not already open.

Files defined as USROPN or already closed must be opened manually and individually and code must make sure each file is not already open. OPEN *ALL would be the complement to CLOSE *ALL.
10 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

SIZE in -o flag of ps command

Hi, Currently the -o flag of ps command does not provide a field specifier to get the SIZE value. SIZE(v flag) The virtual size of the data section of the process (in 1 KB units). It's only possible with ps v <PID> to get the SIZE value. But...
10 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

NON SAN storage connectivity groups go inactive and you can't bring them active after they are inactive. Need to be able to remove vm's from inactive groups or change in the UI.

Unable to add storage when SCG is inactive for a VM. Storage went unavailable due to ssp cluster issue with VIOS's .. on PowerVC the storage connectivity group for NON SAN storage went inactive. Issue 1: This needs an enhancement to either allow y...
10 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration