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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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IBM websites remember you but ask MFA repeatedly

I am an IBM champion, also Authorized Program Administrator and Primary Relationship Contact and I also work as engineer with the Support portal, FixCentral etc. That means I login to IBM websites a lot. Luckily most IBM sites I use now use a sing...
4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted
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Concurrent Maintenance for Ethernet adapter component SFP - FRU for SFP request

Please provide concurrent maintenance using own FRU = Field Replaceable Unit number for adapter component SFP for ethernet adapter EN0J, EL38, EN0H, EL56, CCIN for all is 2B93, vendor Emulex / Broadcom. Currently a FRU number is available for whol...
over 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 7 Not under consideration

Extend the SAVxxx and RSTxxx commands to allow an IFS file as the SAVF file.

The SAV and RST commands allow the value *SAVF for the device parameter, but the save file itself must necessarily refer to a file located in a library. Of course, it’s possible to use the CPYTOSTMF and CPYFRMSTMF commands to achieve the desired r...
5 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

Notification Details- Call Home

We would like to explore the possibility to get all the details available on this notification such as: Host name of the device, serial number, model, type. with that we can have more information and details at the time that the call home event is...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Security java toolbox vs Job batch

We are encountering more and more standard processes that use the Java Toolbox, particularly when using IWS servers.My company and I have identified cases of interference between these processes and the batch jobs that use them.For years, we have ...
5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 6 Under review

Download spool file as text UTF-16 from IBM Navigator for i

In old client access, through navigator (desktop application), we could download spool file as UTF-16. But, In the new IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), through IBM Navigator for i, the spool file downloaded as UTF-8. Please, support, to downlo...
28 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

add lun to asp, disk formatting too long

Today with Flash disk and capacity up to 30TB the function add lun is too long. When we rebuild lpar from scratch we need many days to do it, moreover, if there are about a hundred lpar to be done. Is there a possibility to improve this feature Th...
3 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Under review

Include important software as LPP on AIX, and support it.

Nowadays, a lot of AIX systems include software that comes from RPM packages. I understand why AIX supports RPM packages, as developers/vendors from the Linux space tend to distribute their software in RPM form. A lot of software that is typically...
4 months ago in AIX 1 Submitted

Frame P8 support on HMC V11

Many customers still have P8 frames in service because it's the latest version supporting AIX 5.3. Lot of infrastructures have P8 and P10 frames connected to the same HMC. The refusal to support P8 frames requires segmenting the management of the...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Please add option to nfs client to let the server manage the group info / equivalent to -g or --manage-gids

Dear Sir or Madam, With AIX as client to mount NFS Shares users are not able to access data which are shared via NFS. In my case users have more than 16 groups they belong to and need to access their files. Groups can not be eliminated, unfortunat...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration