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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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    Restore Option needed - addition, disable experation

    When restoring a PowerVC backup, we expired 100's of VM's at the same time. There needs to be a switch to disable expiration on a restore.
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Non-root volume groups not automatically imported and varied on after Versioned WPAR restore

    After a successfull restore of Versioned AIX 5.3 WPAR, I have noticed that any non-rootvg volume groups i.e. data volume groups are not automatically imported and varied on. In our testing, we are restoring the vWPAR back onto the same Global LPAR...
    over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    HMC Power Down frame option

    When powering down the frame from the HMC, there is an insufficient and often confusing process that can lead to serious issues. When power down is selected, a pop-pup is displayed that gives a user an option to confirm or cancel the process. In a...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

    Support DEC keyword to declare Decimal variables

    There is a need to support the DEC keyword when defining decimal variables in RPG IV. It would match both SQL and all other HLL on the system. I understand perhaps the implementation of FIXNBR(*INPUTPACKED) contributed to the decision to use Packe...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Enable customer to modify default login.html screen and put standard Mandated GOVT warning restrictions on it

    All Govt sites require login panels to display standard access restriction text - PowerVC is currently non-compliant
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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    over 11 years ago in Parallel Environment for Power Linux / Runtime Edition 5 Not under consideration

    Mechanism to allow drivers in IO path to communicate with each other.

    We need a mechanism to allow drivers in IO path to communicate with each other.A possible approach could be to allow third party vendors to set/use any unused bit in b_flags in buf/bufx structure to achieve the same. Basically, In the IO path AIX ...
    over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

    Labels on RSS results not accurate

    We would like the ability to change the labels on columns and have them reflect in our ACS SQL script results. We can change the labels now but the results still have the old label for the column so it does no good for us to be able to change the ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Prevent reboot of frame while any LPAR is active

    It is good to "Prevent the frame power off if any LPAR is active/running".As of now we are receiving an alert but still we need to get alternate prevention.
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    vHMC Hard Drive Allocation

    would like the vHMC 8.8.7 sp1 to install with a much smaller HDD. 500GB default is too much for our environment.
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

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