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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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Ability to Onboard VM with Logical Ports (SRIOV)

A classical VM is deployed on PowerVC. We need it to use Logical Ports because its OS level does not support VNIC adapters. we have to add them after the deploy, once the VM is managed by powerVC. for some reason we unmanage the host or the VM, we...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

ACS IFS component-Need Initial Load Filter to reduce files loaded per directory. Not InterActive Filter of loaded files list.

We have IFS directories with 20,000-30,000 files in them. It takes forever to download the whole list of files in the directory, which must be loaded before we can use the interactive filter to narrow down what we are looking for.At times, my netw...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

New switch for ACS Plugin CLDOWNLOAD - Include Column Headings

Support a new switch in the CLDOWNLOAD plugin for ACS to support including column headings. Note: this feature is available within the ACS Run SQL Scripts GUI in the lower portion when saving the results, so the request is to provide the same func...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Request for fast HBA I/O failure

During FC cable test with NICE Information Service(client), we found I/O delay time gap between AIX server and x86 machine. When FC adapter driver detects a link event, driver waits approximately for 15 seconds. Client carried out same test on bot...
over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Provide an IBM i Service for Collection Services configuration information

I have a need to review the Collection Services configuration when I work with clients. I must either do this manually through the GUI or with the CFGPFRCOL command. There is the Retrieve Collection Services Attributes API, but this would require ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 2 Delivered

Provide warning when a user profile approaches maximum total user profile internal entries

Provide warning when a user profile approaches maximum total user profile internal entries, which is approximately 50 million entries. This number is the sum of owned object, private authority, authorized user, and primary group entries for any on...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Delivered

ACS Connection Management

We run about 130 ibm i partitions and use of course ACS to manage them. So in ACS the list of systems to choose to connect to is quite long. I guess most IBM i customers do not have such a large number of partitions and are not in the need of mana...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

improvement to SEND_EMAIL, multiple recipents and attachments

Make it possible to use multiple e-mail adresses in TO_EMAIL, also add CC_EMAIL and BCC_EMAIL. Make it possible to send multiple attachments in the ATTACHMENT field.
11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

IBM i ACS Datatransfer from IBM, EXCEL TabName

The naming of the tabname in EXCEL should also be possible like the behavior in IBM Client Access.CA: FilenameACS: Library/Filename>Sheet1 orACS: Myame>Sheet1 Use Case: With this option the import description in Microsoft ACCESS have not be ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Don't use Java for DB2 HTTP services

Currently the HTTPGETxxxx APIs (n1) require and use Java under the covers. As best I can tell this means a new JVM is started in each job that uses the APIs. This makes it incredibly slow on smaller systems and subsequently limits the use cases. I...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered