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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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Manual vNIC failover via HMC CLI

We'd like to ability to do manual vNIC failovers via the HMC CLI as this is our preferred means of performing scheduled maintenance on our POWER systems.
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

BRMS Feature Enhancement Request

Customer desires to display log BRMS into a stream file in the IFS. Use Case: The customer is a banking/financial institution and needs to keep the backup logs of the daily backups in a file format for audit purposes.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Delivered

Boolean data type for use within SQL Procedural Language

You can use a new system-defined Boolean data type for use within SQL Procedural Language (SQL PL) applications that provides support for declaring and referencing the system-defined logical values: TRUE, FALSE, or NULL within compound SQL (compil...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

bos.cifs needs SMBv3

AIX needs to refresh bos.cifs to at least 10 year old protocol versions. SMBv1 is insecure and has been dropped by every other major operating system except AIX. Here is the real reason now. IBM says Cloud, or bust. Cloud CIFS mounts, at least in ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Deprecating TLS 1.0 in CIMOM

QYCMCIMOM/CIMOM (CIM and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)) job at ports 5889 and ports 5990 are using TLS Version 1.1. Use Case: IBM ESA (Phone Home)
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Delivered

Request a table function to display journal inheritance rules for libraries

Request a table function for journal inherit rules In the course of auditing journal inheritance rules we found only two ways to display journal inheritance rules: DSPLIBD to *PRINTorRTVLIBD A table function that returns separate columns is much f...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Enhance QSYS2.PARTITION_STATISTICS function to include the member text when source file members are queried.

Please enhance QSYS2.PARTITION_STATISTICS to include the member text when source file members are queried. Currently, this function returns the member name, the source type (i.e., RPGLE, PF, CLLE, etc.), the last source update timestamp, the sourc...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Support more than 32 Store Procedures per PAS

Creating External SQL Stored Procedures that reference a Subprocedure in a *SRVPGM have a 32 Procedure maximum per *SRVPGM. Remove this 32 Procedure limit so unlimited (or at least 32766) Procedures may reference the same *SRVPGM object. Use Case:...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Optional function to not cause a BRM10A1 when doing a spool file backup and empty *OUTQ exist

When using an spool file list to save spool files from a list of specified *OUTQ and no spool files exist in an *OUTQ a diagnostic CPF3770 "No objects saved or restored for library *SPLF" message are sent. This is also the case when a incremental ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

Allow user defined options in Navigator for i

Add the ability for users / ISVs to add options to the Navigator for i Interface Use Case: An ISV as an application management module that they wish to add to the Navigator for i Interface so that systems management for the OS and the ISV applicat...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered