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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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SAML Intergration with CMC

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a standard for logging users into applications based on their identity in another context. This single sign-on (SSO) login standard has significant advantages over logging in using a username/password: ...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Provide option to bind SNMP agent to the Boot IP of the system/node.

If the SNMP service uses a dynamically assigned virtual IP, the reported data could be related to multiple systems/nodes instead of a single unique system/node because the virtual IP may be associated with multiple systems/nodes.
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Power Supply "AC resume" message enhancement for P7/8/9 CEC and IO Drawer

Existing P7/8/9 do not have power supply resume message from HMC. and the AC loss message are only prompt once. Customer do have not any methodology to remote monitor if the CEC / IOC power supply status except go into the data-center to check the...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNav

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. As an example, Job name contains QBAT, QINT I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNavigator
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

PEP 2.0 Delete Pool 2FA

Currently, a PEP 2.0 pool can be deleted with a single click of a button and an acknowledgement. I would suggest to add a 2FA (2nd factor authentication via email etc) before any pool can be deleted to eliminate the chance of a mistake.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

MFA sur le pop-up de connexion apache

Nous souhaiterions activer le facteur d’authentification supplémentaire (MFA) en frontal, au niveau de la connexion pop-up Apache.
8 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

Backport PCM FPIN congestion mechanism to AIX 7.2

We have noticed that in an environments with FPIN notifications enabled and high read rates and a larger storage throughput capacity that host ingestion capacity, the behaviour of AIX 7.3 and AIX 7.2 are quite different, leading in AIX 7.2 to scen...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Support additional memory on 4-core server models. 128GB or even 256GB.

Over time POWER processors have gained capability. From 4,200 CPW on a POWER6 to over 20,000 CPW on today's Power10. When POWER7 was introduced the CPU went from 4,200 CPW per core to 6,000 per core AND supported memory on low end servers went f...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 1 Submitted

While debugging in Visual Studio Code (SEP), able to mouseover an RPG variable starting with a special character

Currently, the mouseover only works for RPG program variables that do not start with a special character. It would be a great idea to add the same capability for RPG variables that start with a special character.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Add netmasks into ftpaccess.ctl

/etc/ftpaccess.ctl controls access to FTP service on AIX. Now you can specify only single hosts in the "allow:" line, separated by commas. Netmask values like "10.0.0.0/8" or "10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0" can't be used. FTP doesn't recognize hosts in the n...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted