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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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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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Check the variable declaration when compiling the SQL Stored Procedure

There is a problem that variable declaration check is not performed when compiling (creating) a stored procedure, which causes an error in execution. --------------------------------------- (Example 1)IF SQLCODE = 100 THENSET O_MSG = '';ELSESET O_...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Same user sign on multiple Windows remote desktop, when use ACS, new ACS 5250 sessions always open on 1st desktop session

Customer use Win2012 remote desktop. If the user has 2 remote desktop sessions active, and use ACS, anytime user opens ACS on the 2nd remote desktop session, the ACS always open on the original session where it was first opened for that user. We s...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

sortable columns in Power Enterprise Pool Management windows

When working in the Power Enterprise Pools Management window, it would be nice to be able to sort by columns the output in the Processor Resources and Memory Resources windows.
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Remove 'ping' as product requirement (be able to bypass 'ping' results)

Currently, when adding HMCs to VMR and when performing discovery/verification of storage agent, VMR performs a 'ping' to determine if the HMC or storage agent is up/operational. If the 'ping' fails, VMR does not proceed to configuring HMC or fails...
about 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Ability To Specify Memory In GB Instead of MB In Multiple Places

It would be beneficial to have the ability to specify memory values in GB instead of or in addition to MB in many areas inside of PowerVC. Possibly by adding a toggle that switches between MB/GB like on the HMC interface. We typically allocate mem...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

IBM VM Recovery Manager needs to accept special characters in HMC passwords

Brian:There might be some low hanging fruit for this issue.Does the HMC password you are trying to use contain any special characters?There is an APAR that addresses that issue but the fix is not yet available.The work-around is to change the HMC ...
about 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 3 Delivered

Add an HMC LDAP config option to set the scope from the HMC gui

In HMC gui in the LDAP configuration add an option to specify the search scope.The matching command on the HMC CLI ischhmcldap -o s --scope sub
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Navigator Peformance Monitor copy feature

Allow me to create a monitor from an existing copying only the filter parameters. You can preload the filter panels and then make me finish the monitor Use Case: In ACS Performance plugin, select an existing monitor, go to actions or right click a...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

When deletes are done against the file system, that storage is not unmapped

When deletes are done against the file system, that storage is not unmapped. It appears as though it only gets unmapped if you remove a lvm and nothing more granular.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

PowerVC - Option to email out DRO Events instead of just logging them

DRO Events can only be seen through the PowerVC GUI. Instead of having to login to the GUI to check for new events, there should be an option to have them sent to an external email address.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered