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 Program/Library and Job to Index Advised Table

    The index advised table (and the according Navigator interfaces) should be enhanced by adding the (last) program and job identification that caused that specific index advise to be added/updated. Use Case: In order to perform general application p...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    DB2 Next Identity Value has incorrect value

    The majority of new tables we create contain a record identity column defined as GENERATED BY DEFAULT, starting at 1, increment by 1. This column is also the primary key for the tables. Most inserts into tables do not specify a value for the recor...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    IBM i Access Client Solutions request

    I would like another option under the New tab Action. Under the New Tab selection I would like to see a system selection option like we have on the main menu. Use Case: When I click on New Tab +, I want the drop down list of my systems like I have...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    IBM i Access Client Solutions Enhancements

    I would like to see the New Tab preferences under the Edit, Preferences on the main menu. It is currently under the Edit, Preferences in the session manager area. Use Case: It would be easier to find if it was on the main menu.
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Startup JVM on QZDASOINIT prestart process.

    Would like the ability to specify a program or command to execute that will start up a JVM, for each of my prestarted QZDASOINIT jobs. Use Case: I have about 100+ customers running web apps, and connected via JDBC pooling from Spring. We are runni...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    AIX cfgmgr command should be fault tolerant

    The AIX cfgmgr command is critical to 24x7 operation. It is expected and critical to design system software or operating system software to be fault tolerant. Therefore the cfgmgr command should not hang when comes across a faulty card, port, inte...
    over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic Port Speed Synchronization for NPIV vFC Client Adapter

    Changes to the port speed attribute of a physical FC adapter in the VIOS are not automatically passed along to the NPIV vFC adapters in the client LPARs. NPIV vFC adapters need be reconfigured to learn about the new port speed setting of the under...
    over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

    Secondary Dump Device for Firmware-assisted Dump

    Currently AIX does only support a primary dump device forfirmware-assisted dump configurations. This RFE requests the option to define a secondary dump device for firmware-assisted dump configurations.
    over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Integrate Configuration Health Check with Firmware and HMC Code Update Process

    This marketing field requirement requests a fundamental changeto the way IBM delivers firmware and HMC code updates tocustomers. Currently warnings and specific details about theinstallation of a newly released firmware and HMC code areprovided th...
    over 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

    Increase Maximum Number of Managed Hosts Per HMC Supported By PowerVC

    I would like for PowerVC to support more than 30 HMC-managed hosts. I'm attempting to setup PowerVC in our environment, but ran into this limitation since we have 33 hosts attached to our HMC. Adding hosts within the PowerVC GUI fails because of t...
    over 9 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

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