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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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Ending HTTP server on System i

When the HTTP server 5770-DG1 is terminated, it is terminated after 120 seconds with the option *immed by the IBM program. This causes an error message with level 40 to be written to the system log. The time interval must be extended. Use Case: Er...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

D-Spec Convert to Free Format

It would be extremely helpful to be able to convert D-Specs into free format declarations. Use Case: It would allow the ability to copy code from non-free format sources into totally **FREE code by having it easily converted.
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

PowerVC to support AD nested gropus

Customer would like to be able to use AD nested group with PowerVC
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Fix DSPF to allow Fields on REFFLD that use full 128 character DDL long names

Our team uses has old DDS DSPFs and new ones built using PROFOUNDUI. Product DDS DSPF currently has a 32-character limit for long names/Aliases for fields referenced using REFFLD keyword. This limit should be extended to use the full 128 character...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

Command line tool to reset(re-ipl) Virtual IOA's

Our current situation: We use VTL connected via fiber IOA and VIOS . when a change is done on the VTL we must log into service tools to "re-ipl" the virtual IOA. previously submitted:Marketing Requirement Tracking number : MR0331154848 Use Case: b...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Future consideration

PowerVC : allow cancel of volume attaching or detaching operations

Customers may need to cancel an attaching or detaching operations. Currently this is not a feature of the rest API
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Copy / paste does not work in noVNC session for IBM i console in the IBM Cloud

In other IBM i emulators (PCOMM, iAccess) the user is able to copy text out of and paste onto the command line within the session. The text is available on the users workstation (Windows, MAC). This allows copying/pasting text out of / onto the co...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

trustchk error message issued druiing bosboot after changing powerHA syncd value

On AIX 7.2.4.2 and powerHA 7.2.3.3 we receive a trustchk error message when performing bosboot after changing the synd value from the default value of 60 to 10.
almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 4 Future consideration

Enable SFTP for IBMARE

SYSTEM : IBM IProduct : IBMAREDescription : Our team is using ARE product. Currently IBM do not have the option to secure the data transfer between the host IBMARE and the remote machines. We would really need a secure way of data transfer as an e...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Future consideration

access swagger file freely

The web services server generate swagger.json files for REST, good news ! but as Wsdl are access free, the new swagger file are under HTTPAdmin, so swaggerUi and postman CAN'T use it. please put the swagger file under the context root (/web/servic...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration