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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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Support vHMC on Hyper-v

Many customers are using vmware, but with new license/broadcom challenges then other hypervisors are asked for. Smaller sites dont have a separate Power systems (or 2) to use for the vHMC so they are forced to either purchase the CR2 (best choice ...
12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

QMGTOOLS Option to Compare/Order Cross Reference PTFs Before an OS Upgrade

In QMGTOOLS option 24, PTF menu, can IBM add an option to compare/order cross-reference PTFs when planning for an OS upgrade, like from 7.4 to 7.5?
7 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

Support OIDC / SAML SSO in addition to local OS/LDAPs authentication

LDAPs while better than local auth has a number of issues that make it less than optimal in an enterprise environment: - Authentication locks due to failed credentials- Shoehorned-in MFA- credentials are managed through the application vs. externa...
5 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add IFS source information to OBJECT_STATISTICS

Storing source information in the object is a very valuable audit tool. In this way auditors and DevOps providers can match source change dates and locations with the information stored in the object. Since more an more objects can be created from...
8 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

In Compliance tab, last applied type doesnt show full profile name

We do have custom profiles created out CISv1 profile and named with starting CISv1. Since last applied type only shows few characters, we are not able to identify which profile a server got applied.
30 days ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

Implement IO tuning parameter value for 'dk_closed_path_recovery=1' by default

Enable 'health_check' command to run on paths to disks, which are not open and active in the kernel, by default as to allow automatic recovery.
over 1 year ago in AIX 2 Submitted

Add an additional special authority *NONSYS

With the introduction of a SPCAUT *NONSYS which which should include *ALLOBJ WITHOUT operating system libraries the system administrator should be able to easily seperate e.g. developers from system administrators. This option would avoid accident...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

Add additional metrics to i Navigator System Monitors.

Currently there is a list of metrics to choose from to setup a System Monitor. When a monitor threshold is set and exceeded a command can be run. The idea is to add additional metrics to System Monitors list to choose from like Object Lock content...
2 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

Tcp server certificate hot reload

A few days ago I read an article reporting the future intention to go to decrease the duration of certificates, it would be important to make sure that the application of such certificates would not require the shutdown and subsequent activation o...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted