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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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Implement IO tuning parameter value for 'dk_closed_path_recovery=1' by default

Enable 'health_check' command to run on paths to disks, which are not open and active in the kernel, by default as to allow automatic recovery.
10 months ago in AIX 2 Submitted

fix lsof so it will show open files when using Storge Scale

IBM documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.2.1?topic=cluster-restarting-large-storage-scale lists lsof as a way to check for open files when stopping down Storage Scale, yet when you run lsof against a file in Storage Scale, it ...
17 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enhance the 5250 console support provided by the HMC (remote) to support 132-column display.

For a limited function IBM i LPAR (such as an FSFC target) where, for security reasons the only advisable interactive connection is via an HMC console, having a 132 column screen would provide an immeasurable benefit in viewing 132 position spoole...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enhance Password Complexity Rules

Add capability in password system values or QPWDRULES to include passwords may not contain...Any Part of a Users Full nameContext Specific words, such as the name of an application/service/departmentDictionary words in any language
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log.

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log. So, if there are no log entries the clavan cmd says "clavan: Not able to analyze application availability because both th...
4 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

Cloud Connector Status report also HMC hostname

it's much easier to find HMC hostname during investigation
10 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

NVMeOF support in PowerHA

Fibre Channel (FC)-Nonvolatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics (NVMeoF) protocol in the PowerVM N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) stack (NVMeoF) offers a significant boost in performance and efficiency. AIX on Power Systems, supports NVMe over Fi...
4 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
7 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
5 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

AIX ansible support for generating encrypted passwords.

https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/issues/548 Request to add support to ansible for AIX to add user password generation with encryption
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted