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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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AIX Failed Login count file log rotation

It is observed that if a user tries to login to a server using any account, and if it fails to login, its recording a entry in /etc/security/failedlogin file, so, if some one can script this login and keep retying 100's of 1000's of times, it can ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Power 8 storage pool utilize the SAN as an alternate path of communication

To have the storage pool utilize the SAN as an alternate path of communication in case of a network outage (e.g., using SANCOMM), which is a software feature request for changes to VIOS SSP.
over 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Delivered

RDI: Fields defined in multiple files are not shown in outline

When a field is defined in multiple files it is not possible to see this in the outline. If you have 2 files ( myFileA and myFileB ) both containing the field myField then expanding the outline for myFileA should also show the line for myFileB wit...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

HMC 9 change UseDNS to be disable in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

We have a problem with HMC 9 SSH connections who takes too long to connect after we put password. We have another HMC 8 without problems. Both are in the same network and DNS configurations are the same. The only difference is with UseDNS in sshd_...
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC REST API changing Performance Stats Preferences should not need full superAdmin privileges

Switching on the collection of performance data should not require the full superAdmin privileges that let the user do absolutely everything (including total destruction) to all the Virtual Machines and Servers.
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Access Client Solutions Outq selection

In 'classic' Client Access it was possible to make a shortcut to a certain outq on an iSeries server. The selection made in one session was saved until next logon. Use Case: Customer have users not using 5250 but only access outq/splfs and do not ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

IBM i Access Client Solutions - Require Keep Alive parameter to avoid timeouts

We have several LOB's that use DSP01 (LAN Console) to run overnight batch due to the ability to pass the console onto different regions when shifts change. Since we have moved our LPARS behind secure firewalls the 60 minute timeout of the firewall...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

DISPLAY_JOURNAL BLOB data

The QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF returns entry data as a BLOB. It would be incredibly useful if it could come back as text, like DSPJRN. Use Case: I often need to see what changes were made to a particular PF. I need to see the details of the change...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Support for 192 vCPUs per LPAR in a shared pool

The client wants to run 2 LPARs on a 192 core system sharing all the resources with each LPAR running with 192 vCPUs. The current limitation running is 128 vCPUs per LPAR when running in shared processor mode.
almost 8 years ago in PowerVM 1 Delivered

Increase log retention of HMC audittrail

Hello,We would like to be able to increase the log of the command result :lssvcevents -t console -d 365
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered