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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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IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Tracking the number of message KEYS used by an active program

This is about MESSAGE KEYS. There are a limited number of message KEYS that a job can use. When that limit is reached, the job stops functioning and must be restarted. This job is very important to our business and processes MQ transactions and we...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
4 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

Enable Virtual Serial Number (VSN) for Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

As currently defined, a Virtual Serial Number (VSN) can only be used once for a single LPAR, with cores fully assigned. This approach significantly limits flexibility. For example, consider a scenario with three LPARs, each assigned 0.4 cores. The...
3 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

Allow more row value comparisons

Often old tables have two separate columns for a timestamp, a decimal date and time column instead of a single timestamp column. When querying those tables, it would be great if row-value-expressions could not only be compared for equality but als...
11 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

IBM ACS (Access Client Solutions) - Retain Settings in Visual Explain

In ACS 1.1.9.7, you can zoom in on the right hand pane of Visual Explain. Wen you close the window, it does NOT retain your zoom settings. Please enable this to to retain your zoom settings. Also, it is not intuitive that you even can zoom, maybe ...
21 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Enhance iNavigator to allow copy of user profile to other systems when it contains a group profile.

We would like to use iNavigator to copy user profiles from one system to many. This currently does not work if the user profile contains a group profile - which nearly 100% of user profiles do. Reference TS017839310 We consulted our Navigator deve...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Preferred node support for IBM SVC stretched cluster / PBHA

In a IBM (enhanced) stretched cluster or a PBHA (Hyperswap) implementation, it is necessary that the preferred node of a LUN is on the same site then the VM is running. Otherwise every IO has to go twice over the ISL's, because the multipath drive...
10 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Request for the additional parameter/function for detaching DDM from LVM Mirror

・Requested function: - I want to request a timeout parameter to enable users to adjust IO timeout to detach each hdisk from LVM Mirror configuration. - I want to request a function that enables a detachment of a DDM under LVM Mirror, in case its I...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration