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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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    ACS RSS save to Source Physical File remove hex 25

    When saving to an IBM source Physical file (PF-SRC) DO NOT save with X'25' line endings. It makes it impossible to use script elsewhere plus there is no need for line endings in PF-SRC. If you need line ends in ACS RSS tool then add then for PF-SR...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Planned for future release

    AIX: OpenSSH support for authenticating with FIDO2 credentials.

    Having OpenSSH at least in version 8.2 and getting support for ed25519-sk type of keys would be a gain.
    about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

    Add a "Run Now" option on an HMC scheduled task

    As part of HMC patching it's good to take a backup before after so a recovery point is available. Where the HMC has a scheduled backup already defined it would be convenient to have a "Run now" option against the schedule entry in the GUI.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    HMC GUI > Implement a "button" for opening an IBM HW/SW Support Case that automatically pulls in data (S/N, OS Level etc.) from an LPAR or Managed System

    This is a request for enhancing the functionality of the HMC GUI with: A button / or menu that enables the user to open an IBM Support case directly and easily from the HMC GUI By selecting the affected LPAR / VM or Manages System Base data needed...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Port native boost libraries ot IBM i for xgboost

    I cannot install xgboost (https://pypi.org/project/xgboost/) `pip3 install xgboost` because the native boost libraries have not been ported.This is an extract of the error message (which is attached): XGBoostLibraryNotFound: Cannot find XGBoost Li...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Planned for future release

    Few confirmation screen before power off manage system

    It has been observed a couple of times in the past that the managed server on the processors (i.e. the whole machine) has been powered off accidently since the enhanced version of the GUI was available. To avoid another accident in future can we h...
    11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    nconnect NFS mount option for AIX

    It will be useful to have nconnect NFS mount option like in Linux world available in AIX also to improve performance of NFS mounts for WAN connections and / or for connections with limited bandwith per one tcp session. In AIX NFS mount uses only o...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

    Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

    Long variable names in CLLE

    Allow variables to be defined with names longer than 10 characters in CL. This will allow CL code to be more readable and potentially reference long column names in tables.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Planned for future release

    RBAC Domain assignment for a file gets lost when cp is used.

    When using Domain RBAC to implement access restrictions to files based on classifications. i.e. CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET as a domain name. However, when a domain SECRET is assigned to a file in directory /secret/ and someone with access to the file ...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

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