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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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Provide a GET SQL OBJECT TYPE for IBM i Objects API

We need a way to pass in an IBM i object and return a value that indicates (A) The SQL Object Type and (B) whether or not is is an SQL Object. Effectively this would allow us to check if the object is an SQL object and obtain its SQL Object Type. ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Future consideration

Allow change of Unload at Vary Off for Tape Device Description whilst active

The default value for the "Unload device at vary off" parameter on a tape device description is *YES Currently, it is not possible to change this value to *NO without varying off the device description, which of course ejects the tape. I would lik...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Future consideration

Retain 132 Columns in DSPF CL command when switching to HEX (F10) Mode

When using the IFS DSPF command to look at an IFS file, the F10=Hex key can be used to view the file in hex. However on 132x27 screens the Hex view is restricted to 80 characters and the addition 52 characters per line remain blank.It is important...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

Search for Multiple Tags

Add functionality into the IBM Cloud Management Console to search for more than a single tag. This would allow for more granular tracking & reporting.
5 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Have an AIX version again, not just Linux

Linux and Linux root access is not always available to AIX community
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Make Python support zoneinfo

zoneinfo is a package in the standard Python library, but IBM i doesn't implement it. This causes errors when trying to use 3rd party packages. IBM i should implement that package. Here's what my PC gives for zoneinfo: zoneinfo <module 'zoneinf...
8 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Under review

PowerVC - LPM validate not supported

When we have to manage a lot of AIX's (more than 2000), LPM operations become critical. We have to be sure that LPM operations will succeed. Same process that are on HMC. PowerVC at this time, don't propose to validate a LPM operation.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Will the compatibility with AIX7.2 and/or AIX 7.3 will be announced with the product PAM_HBAC (Host Based Access Control)

Hello, Will the compatibility with AIX7.2 and/or AIX 7.3 will be announced with the product PAM_HBAC (Host Based Access Control).At the moment, pam_hbac runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris (tested on Oracle Solaris 11 and Omnios) but not on AIX.
11 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

5733-ICC File upload over 100GB

With 5733-ICC it is currently not possible to use files larger than 100GB, which is not practical. Use Case: Virtual tapes sizes bigger than 100GB.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 3 Functionality already exists

DSPSMTPLE command

Hi, There are commands to add to the SMTP list and remove from SMTP list but there is not a command to view the SMTP list. Adding https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=ssw_ibm_i_74/cl/addsmtple.html Removing https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?top...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration