IBM Power Ideas Portal


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    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

    More than 10000 lines in the System Debugger

    We have (very) few big COBOL programs generated from an old 4GL generator. Theses programs exceed 10000 lines so we cannot acces to all the lines, and then we need to run STRDBG to debug them. We will be pleased to have more lines (20000 would be ...
    14 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Add documentation option to a SQL service in RSS

    VS code has the brilliant option when hovering over a SQL service in a SQL request it allows you to search IBM documentation for this specific SQL service. This idea is about adding the same kind of functionality to ACS RSS if possible.
    29 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    One location for software downloads

    IBM AIX is a great product. But most users install software on their machines that is supplied by IBM but does not come with AIX. Examples are sudo, openssh, java, lsof, Python3, perl etc. Many of which are from the AIX Web Download Pack (https://...
    4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

    With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    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...
    30 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

    Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Drop down lists to have a search function.

    Currently, to find an item in the drop down lists in PowerVC, you have to look for the item that you need manually, there is no search function. In large environments with many projects and storage templates this becomes cumbersome. Having search ...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Dropdown lists to be sorted alphbetically

    Currently the drop down lists in PowerVC appear to be sorted by the openstack object ID number. This is not very user friendly especially when there are a large number of items in the list. It would be much better if these lists were sorted alphab...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Post-Quantum Cryptography

    Add to DCM the possibility of Post-Quantum Cryptography and also update version of OPENSSL to 3.50 for use it
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

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