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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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Use all IO groups when creating multiple vdisks

When creating multiple vdisks, I would like the ability to spread the disks across all IO groups in an SVC cluster.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Activation of Compile menu also on iProject view when a source member is opened

Working with RDp 8.0 we noticed that editing a source member from the Remote Explorer view, the Compile menu becomes active on the menu title bar, while opening a source member from the iProject view, the menu is not active and the only way to cal...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

A "Last used" column in the Object Table

As the "Last modified" column Use Case: To easily order by "last used" date
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Allow a different editor to be associated with member via Window/Preferences/General/Editors/File Associations

I have added "Screen Designer" as the default associated editor for *.dspf file type. But when I double-click the DSPF I get the plain LPEX editor. Use Case: Open the correct default associated editor when double-clicking the *.dspf member.
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

PowerHA IP storage support

Add support for IP storage in PowerHA
almost 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

fileplace does not display ABNR block

fileplace doesn't show ABNR (Allocated But Not Recorded), and accessing the sparse file at theoffset would simply return zeroes whereas directly accessing the disk would return valid data. Highly recommend that a new flag should be suppliedso that...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Include snapshot output in filesystem snap data

We need information in the filesystem portion of the snap command to identify which JFS2 filesystems have snapshot logical volumes. Currently it is not possible to determine this from snap data.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Make installp more intelligent re: Trusted Executition policies - currently TE=ON prevents any actions with installp

installp process examines the TE policies before taking any action. Once the policy "TE=ON" any action to install or uninstall software is blocked. The message is:Installation cannot proceed as Trusted Execution Checks are enabled.Disable the TE, ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Client is requesting that the HMC not call home when MLXENT HW ERR is logged.

Client is requesting that the HMC not call home when MLXENT HW ERR is logged.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Request more functionality when creating custom managed resource role and excluding chosen lpars from user view.

At present when you remove a lpar from a user's assigned custom resource role you need to manually go back into the HMC and add a newly created lpar each time one is added to a managed system. I would like to have an option that would allow new lp...
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

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