IBM Power Ideas Portal


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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Add the autostart option to all IBM i Debug Servers and Debug Service

Currently in Navigator for i the TCP/IP server System Debugger consist of 3 instances the System Debugger, IDE Debugger Server and Debug Service. Unfortunately the Debug server is not available in the Navigator for i TCP/IP Configuration Propertie...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Get the navigator for i to the client how we use it in the IBM i access for windows.

Some customer dont let or permit the access to IBM i navigator for i for permission of firewall, security or compliance etc..... a good better could be get back the manage of the navigator to include in the IACS Solutions, and use a another port t...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
5 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

"Power Pi" - a low-cost Power-based single-board computer

The popularity of Linux was and still is fused by its easy and cheap availability. Every student or hobbyist can setup his/her own server using a "Raspberry Pi" for under 100$. A similar offering on the basis of low-cost Power hardware could do th...
7 months ago in Power Systems Design Submitted

Native AIX syslog function should support encrypted logs when forwarding to a central syslog server

In this day and age of OS security-awareness and its importance within operating systems (being available out of the box), critical OS logging functions such as syslog should support encrypting the logs if they need to be forwarded to a central co...
5 months ago in AIX Submitted

Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager Submitted

PowerVC virtual appliance DLPAR and LPM support

The appliance is running on Power .Please enable DLPAR and LPM support including the required software and configs in the Operating System build
4 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

Enhance updateios to support security patching between VIOS releases

With increased focus on security patching, we find we need to patch VIOS several times between VIOS releases with security fixes. The 'updateios' padmin command is only suited for updating the VIOS level, not installing individual patches. Current...
5 months ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

Stop generating alerts each time "stopsrc -s IBM.SoftwareRM" is run

When IBM.SoftwareRM is stopped gracefully it creates a serviceable event that then alerts notification recipients as configured on the HMC. When we installed the recent HIPER ifix for SoftwareRM across our estate it generated a flood of alerts. We...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

Provide a fast way to list PRINTER FILE objects

There is currently no scalable, programmatic interface dedicated to retrieving a list of printer files (*PRTF) on IBM i. To obtain a list of printer files today, applications must use any of these interfaces: DSPFD OUTPUT(*OUTFILE), QGYOLOBJ, QSYS...
2 months ago in IBM i / Print Submitted

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