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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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Would like to see the NMAP commands be made available for the operating system.

Would like to see the NMAP commands be made available for the operating system. Because the tools are good to have if someone asks you to probe a remote server to see what ports are available. This is especially needed if someone put in firewall r...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Under review

Get Elastic Capacity on Demand CoD code via an api call.

This is the only missing step to a larger automation idea to automatically allocate Elastic Capacity on Demand to a LPAR with a shell script. I have solved adding a CoD code to a frame and activating the resource and adding it to a LPAR through th...
over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 2 Under review

Process to meet Department of Defense or NIST Media Sanitization Standards

IBM currently does not have a process that has been vetted to meet that DoD or NIST compliance level for Disk Sanitization. There used to be a product called "Disk Sanitizer" available from our lab services team for purchase but that was sunset du...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Under review

Improvement in PowerSC reporting for patch management

We are using PowerSC for AIX patch management. We want to have the following features in the PowerSC GUI to have better reporting: 1. The PowerSC GUI should show in a percentage form - how many patches are currently applied and how many are pendin...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 2 Under review

NX- And In-Core-Acceleration To Achieve Energy-Efficient Quantum-Safe Encryption For IBM i

This request is for activating in-core- or/and nested acceleration to support the advertised quantum-safe encryption also for IBM i.Other methods (as described below) are neither fast enough nor a simple solution for customers who use cloud or onl...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 4 Under review

Globalization/Secondary languages considerations when upgrading the IBM i

Good day. Many IBM i systems use secondary languages that need to be taken into consideration when planning to upgrade the IBM i OS. If your machine uses secondary languages, the LPPs languages must also be upgraded to the newer version, the langu...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

Add OBJECT ATTRIBUTE (PF, PRTF, LF, C, RPGLE, etc.) to the object selection for QGYOLOBJ API.

Using only the object type (*FILE, *PGM, etc) with QGYOLOBJ is okay, but in the specific case of object type *FILE, there are so many variations, DDM, PF, LF, PRTF, and so on. Often when you specify *FILE you only want one of those subtypes or obj...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Under review

Customer want to have a better Response for reference code E3D46FF.

Customer had a callhome problem when send a test request for help.The test for connection to IBM was OK.In the end they found the problem in there (new) proxy server where the rulefor the HMC was set, but not activated somehow. Having a better Res...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

Display the correct image for Power10 S1014 Server in HMC Gallery View

When you connect a Power10 S1014 to a HMC, it displays a generic image of a server, rather than an image of the actual server (as is the case with Power8 & Power9) Sample Gallery view attached, you will see that the Power8 & Power9 serve...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Support 64bit OpenSSL libraries on i7.4

With the release of i7.5 the OS delivered OpenSSL PASE libraries are compatible with 64 bit applications, but for releases prior to i7.5 they are only compatible with 32bit linkage.As most applications are being built as 64bit architecture binarie...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Under review

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