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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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Improve time to get Full Sysdump in Highend Mission critical systems with huge amount of memory

As IBM we describe Highend Power servers as one of the most resilient and available platforms to hold mission critical workloads. Those servers have increasing amount of memory (several TB) and hold many workloads in parallel thanks to our PowerVM...
3 months ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted

More detailed user and role management in Power VC (based on Openstack Identity)

More detailed role and user management. In large installations and in environments with high security restrictions, such as banks, it is crucial to very precisely manage user rights and their roles, so I am asking you to expand these functionaliti...
8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
3 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

/extra filesystem is created only with 20GB of storage - to less for storing mulitple vios-images

When attempting to upload a second VIOS installation image to the HMC, an error occurs: cpviosimg -h xxx.xx.xx.xx -l /src_nim/iso_images -f Virtual_IO_Server_Base_Install_3.1.4.30_DVD_1_of_2_112023_LCD8250111.iso,Virtual_IO_Server_Base_Install_3.1...
30 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Stack trace in joblog

The lob log has been for ages been the best way to find post mortem issues with applications. However the job log was designed back in time where the call stack was typical not huge. Applications of today have huge call stacks and goes through var...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Submitted

Add availability info (version/release/TR) to Info Center

Please add availability info to RPGLE BIFs, SQL functions/procedures, catalog views and IBM i services (like table functions, etc.). Some information like: Available since 7.3 TR 2 and 7.4 This would make it easy to check backward compatibility.
5 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 3 Submitted

Allow to initialize arrays using %list

Allow for arrays to be initialized using %list command, for example: dcl-s allowedValues int(10) dim(4) inz(%list(1:2:3:4)); Plus error checking when initial value exceeds array size etc.
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

PowerVC with PeerZoning/Smart Zoning

A new type of storage zoning is peerzoning or smartzoning. This method is clearer and more practical to handle. e.g. debugging etc.
11 months ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

Show HMC Firewall "Available applictions" in HMC CLI

I would like to see possibility to list all possible Applications that can be configured on HMC firewall, on HMC CLI in a similar way as they are shown in HMC GUI (see atttached screenshot) Currently lshmc --firewall gives list only for the rules ...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

PowerVC container based (docker/podman)

To simplify the installation and update procedure and get more stability. This also reduces the dependencies on the operating system/repos.
11 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration