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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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PowerVC - VIOS shared storage pool - cluster stabilty enhancement

In our PowerVC 1.2.3.2 PoC environment, an unavailability of all vios shared storage pool resources occurred right after migration from PowerVC version 1.2.2.2. Please check above PMR for details.
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Is a defect

PowerVC deploy to push complete hosts file for domain

IBM PowerVC will push host file update to a deployed VM to add the local host , it also allows updating VM with DNS, this feature is to push a fully populated hosts file to the target VM to bypass the need for a DNS
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there will not be c...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Include field name specified on procedure prototype in content assist prompt.

We have over 3500 procedures in our service programs. All have the field name that should be used specified on the prototype parameters. It sure would be nice if these field names were included in the Content Assist and would be injected into the ...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

IBM PowerVC hybrid LDAP support

Openstack defines support for hybrid LDAP support documented herehttps://github.com/SUSE-Cloud/keystone-hybrid-backendthis allows isolate of work roles to unique ldap servers
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Add cli_chgrpmem command in order to add/remove 1,000+ users to/from a group

The current PowerHA release does not allow to add a group with 1000+ ID (verified with 1023 and 1246 IDs): doing so, CSPOC produces "Command is too long" error. Increasing CSPOC internal buffer to 32K does not help (debug iFix "dbg40041_a" was tes...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

Push To Client - Save/deploy folder/files

Most 3rd-party add-on tools for Eclipse (RDi) store their configurations in one or more XML files. It would be great if we could specify certain files and/or folders that should be saved by Push To Client and deployed to the same relative path for...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Push To Client not saving Key Bindings

The Push-To-Client feature is not saving customization to the Key Bindings in RDi 9.5. Use Case: Push-to-Client is a great feature for simplifying the roll-out of standard configuration and key bindings would be a natural extension.
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Is a defect

SRIOV in shared mode: HMC debug facilities

SRIOV in shared mode: There are no HMC debug facilities like send/receive power nor wrap plug diagnostics.
about 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Perfromance Improvement for the AIX 7.1 commands grep, wc and sort in UTF-8 locale

Customer reported slower performance with UTF-8 locale, for scriptsparsing UTF-8 text with wc, sort, grep.
over 10 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration