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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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    Enhanced Remote RSTLICPGM with License Acceptance Parameter

    Current Limitation Today, when you run RSTLICPGM, if the product requires license acceptance, the system: Prompts interactively on the green screen OR requires a separate manual step using a CL program or override to accept the license This makes ...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Under review

    Cloud Connector STATUS needs a better method of identifying HMCs

    The STATUS tab for Cloud Connector ( under Setup ) does not provide a simple and consistent method of identifying the HMCs. It would be helpful to have an additional column that contains the name of the HMC to keep consistency with other screens a...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Under review

    CMC to support dual HMC

    Currently we can add two HMC for a power hardware, but i guess it actively uses only one. As soon as the active hmc gets disconnects or frame-hmc connection fails, CMC dont display frame(systems) information all over the place. primarly PEP2 appli...
    over 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Under review

    LVM mirroring across VGs (enables eg. online FS migration from one vg to another)

    LVM is great and has been for decades. Many LVM manipulations can be done online without unmounting filesystems or stopping the applications, which is an advantage compared to other OS's. There are, however, still a few things that require to stop...
    2 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Warn customers before Defective PTFs are applied

    Customers often download CUMEs or HIPERs well before they plan to apply them. During the interim, one or more PTFs may be marked defective, but the system allows the PTFs to be applied without warning customers. The following scenario is a possibl...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Under review

    WRKPTFGRP vs. DSPPTFGRP

    The service below requires the user to be authorized to the WRKPRTGRP. But the service only list information not changing anything, so why not only require authorization to DSPPTFGRP? Improvement suggestion to IBM… SELECT CURRENT SERVER CONCAT ' i...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Under review

    Cloud Storage Solutions for i 5733ICC - Multi-threaded downloads

    I've configured the mutil-threaded uploads for this product and it made a significant improvement to the upload times. It would be beneficial to be able to do this for the downloads.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    IP awareness of MFA within TOTP intervals

    MFA authentication must be renewed if requests come from a different IP address, even if a TOTP interval has been set.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    Add a function usage that allows selected users to restore programs with adopted authority, overriding the QALWOBJRST system value.

    For security, a customer may by default set QALWOBJRST to disallow adopted authority objects to be restored. When a justified restore is needed, the setting is relaxed for a short time and for all users rather than just for the user(s) that actual...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

    adding 2 columns to authority collection

    I am using a lot authority collection. Fabulous tool even though not complete (some object types are not covered, which requires extra work). During my numerous remediation projects, I really feel we need to add 2 things in the collection: The tim...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

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