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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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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    NIM-HTTP-Service: Feature to change the temporary download location

    Currently a small package installation via NIM-HTTP will cause a download of the whole lpp_source (>8GB) into /tmp/_nim_dir_$$. This is very inefficient, slow and always needs lot's of space in /tmp. A small and quick feature gain would be a po...
    8 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Locking objects on both systems in an Active-Passive environment - Db2 Mirror

    Currently, locks are replicated in an Active-Passive Db2 Mirror environment. Is it necessary to lock objects or replicate locks exclusively or at the record level in the passive environment? If locking could be avoided in the "PASSIVE" environment...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 Mirror 0 Future consideration

    Email notification to "authorized to create orders" users in Customer Initiated Upgrade whenever an ooCoD engine is activated/deactivated

    Activating processors via ooCoD starts the billing process. Many customers stage an ooCoD record to be available "in a pinch" when the need for capacity may be time sensitive. Anyone with access to the SE could turn on engines and start billing wi...
    8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Allow comments in lan firewall network info in HMC.

    Depending on our data center, we have one or more HMCs installed at a location. On each HMC we have to allow many different subnets access in the various rules in the HMC lan firewall config. It's nice that we can input entire subnets in the lan f...
    8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Disable/Deprecate ssh-rsa OpenSSH Host Keys on HMC

    ssh-rsa SSH Host Keys were deprecated with OpenSSH 8.2 back in 2020. Can these host keys be disabled by default or a new option be added in the limited shell to be able to manipulate ssh host keys.
    8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Resource role permissions should be transfered to new system during LPM

    Current situation: When permission to a specific LPAR is defined in a given resource role, permission is automatically given to the hosting server. If the LPAR is migrated to another hosting server, permission to this new server is not given autom...
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    SRVAUTE replication administrative domain

    When you replicate a user profile in an administrative domain at the moment SRVAUTE are not under replication. This could be a big problem for all applications that are using this os feature. So, at the moment the only way possible to replicate th...
    10 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

    Allow more row value comparisons

    Often old tables have two separate columns for a timestamp, a decimal date and time column instead of a single timestamp column. When querying those tables, it would be great if row-value-expressions could not only be compared for equality but als...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Put Physical Optical Devices back in HMC GUI

    In using only 1 DVD or RDX on POWER10 Servers, HMC Code V10R3M1060 and above left out the ability to See and manage Physical Optical from Virtual Storage Management. Systems with large number of LPAR's are sharing 1 DVD or RDX successfully until 1...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Return the Utility CoD Processor Capacity Setting - Unreported processor minutes.

    When using Utility CoD processors it is important to know how may minutes have been used.
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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