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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    Add support for Java 21 to IBM i

    Java 21 is needed so we can use new features also on IBM i. It will enable IBM i community to run applications that requires java 21. Java 21 (IBM Semeru) is already available for other platforms.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Submitted

    Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

    I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Preferred node support for IBM SVC stretched cluster / PBHA

    In a IBM (enhanced) stretched cluster or a PBHA (Hyperswap) implementation, it is necessary that the preferred node of a LUN is on the same site then the VM is running. Otherwise every IO has to go twice over the ISL's, because the multipath drive...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    possibility to assign the certificate from DCM console for Navigator and DCM web portal

    Today we have to manage or assign the certifiate outside DCM console especially while renewing new certificate we have to manage all tcp enabled ssl service in DCM console and for navigator and DCM outside DCM console like web admin console and na...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Under review

    Seperating Access to Profile Editor

    Currently there is one option to give an user rw rights. For all custom profiles or none. We have the need to be more granular. For instance: seperate it by operating system seperte it within an Operating system (by LPAR or hostname)
    about 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

    RACF should support dynamic altering the RACF database configuration

    Currently, the names of the RACF databases are defined in the SYS1.PARMLIB(IRRPRM00) parmlib member. Those dataset names become constant for the IPL. They can not be changed without SYSPLEX-wide IPLs which would cause the customer massive outages ...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

    "Power Pi" - a low-cost Power-based single-board computer

    The popularity of Linux was and still is fused by its easy and cheap availability. Every student or hobbyist can setup his/her own server using a "Raspberry Pi" for under 100$. A similar offering on the basis of low-cost Power hardware could do th...
    5 months ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted

    Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

    I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

    The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC.

    The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC. This should also be available for the entire managed system. The energy costs calculated down to the work performed is becoming increasingly important for customers when th...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add a CLI assitant similar to RHEL "Command Line Assistant" on IBM i (and AIX)

    Everyday we hear about experts shortage on IBM i . The RHEL CLI Assistant is loaded with support tickets , and it looks really great. It ca even write scripts for basic operation. It would be great a similar tool on AIX and IBM i , so we can check...
    5 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

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