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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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POWERHA clnodename order

The clnodename command should display nodes in the order in which they are specified when the cluster is defined rather than be based on the order of the VERBOSE_LOGGING stanza in HACMPnode.
about 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

Do not show block cursor that indicates uncomposed cursor position (ACS 1.1.5)

Remove block cursor that indicates un-composed cursor position Use Case: Insurance Policy Administrator System Insurance contract issuance in bilingual languages (English & Vietnamese) Scenario:-When an un-composed Vietnamese character is ente...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

RDP ELS support

In order to correctly work with EMC and Brocade hardware and tooling, we require support for RDP ELS on Power 7 and Power 8 hardware platform fiber adapters. On the Power 8 platform:EN0A/EN0B 577F PCIe2 2-Port 16Gb FC Adapteron the Power 7 platfor...
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

HMC remove software version from Pre/login screen

The pre/login screen for our HMC is showing the software release "Hardware Management Console (V7R7.9.0.3)"
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

VIOS 2.2.4.10 cl_query interval needs to change to every hour or send cl_query logs to caa logs

VIOS - 2.2.4.10 generating caa query logs every 5 min to syslog 3 arciod01 caa:info syslog: caa_query.c cl_query 2383 515 Query failed: line 2345: The system call does not exist on this system.Jul 11 10:44:43 arciod01 caa:info syslog: caa_query.c ...
over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Delivered

sql function - allow to define the scope of deterministic

Hello, if I have understand correctly, setting deterministic a function when I create it means that sql can cache the results to improve performance. the sql cache is purged by the IPL. so this means that the scope of deterministic for a sql funct...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Possibility to extract LPM activity from HMC

Our team needs to log all LPM activity on dual-HMC setup to be able to provide proof to Oracle company that the partitions running Oracle have not been moved to another Power frame. We would like to have a log that contains all LPM activity on the...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Applying SOD Using RBAC "Role-based access control"

Dears, I would like clarify our main targets, so please let me present it in the following points :- 1. We are applying SOD (Segregation Of Duties) on AIX environment, to separate between system admin tasks and security admin tasks (Main target), ...
over 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 6 Delivered

Add "Machine Type" to a DB2 Service

Would be beneficial to have "Machine Type" be available via a DB2 Service. Use Case: Instead of needing to have a user/admin GO SERVICE opt 6 we could obtain the information via SQL statement.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

SRAD limitation on E880

PMR: [45692,999,766 / 45693,999,766] CMT# : AK1789For Power 7 & p8, there was a SRAD limit of 4 on every CEC, However, with p8 announcement, per core performance increased compared to p7&p6. In order to achieve same performance level on P8...
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered