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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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Resource role permissions should be transfered to new system during LPM

Current situation: When permission to a specific LPAR is defined in a given resource role, permission is automatically given to the hosting server. If the LPAR is migrated to another hosting server, permission to this new server is not given autom...
21 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC delivering CPU detail through CLI, REST API

Key points:- Operational Efficiency: Direct access to CPU speed via HMC (CLI/REST API) eliminates the need for agents on client LPARs, simplifying workflows and reducing operational overhead.- Resource Optimization: Bypassing agents frees up LPAR ...
5 months ago in Hardware 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...
5 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 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 ...
7 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Add CRTPERIOD (similar to CHGPERIOD) on the "SAV" CL Command

When doing large migrations, the number of objects in the IFS could add up to nearly terabytes. We would like to save IFS files based on Creation Date rather than Last Changed Date. The benefit is we can migrate files created before or since a spe...
2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

Create CLI command that shows the same Virtual fiber data as displayed in HMC GUI.

Currently when logged into V10 HMC code gui when you select an lpar -> select adapter view then the virtual fiberchannel adapter tab it shows a table with the following details: Virtual IO server, client server adapter, location and the pair of...
21 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Better documentation of Sqlstate behavior in IF statement

I ran into some peculiar piece of code that didn't do what I expected and decided to run a small test.The goal is to see if SqlState is being reset in an if-statement. My human brain says it shouldn't be reset in the example code below begin decl...
22 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

implement a newer version of mongodb version 8

currrently mongodb 5 is supported within the powervc version 2.2.1 & 2.3.0we require a more current mongodb version.
2 months ago in PowerVC 0 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 ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted