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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

    Showing 114

    We should come up with reference architectures and solution blueprints to create IBM Power system appliances for IBM and Non-IBM Software stack e.g. IBM CloudPak, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, EDB, MongoDB etc.

    Many customers (SMEs and mainly project teams in the Enterprises) want to deploy mission-critical applications, database, and middleware solutions with high availability, performance, and above all security, and to integrate IBM and open-source so...
    6 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Cross (solution applicable to multiple industries) 0 Under review

    Allow programs and service programs to FORCE library at top of system library list.

    When creating or changing Commands and Menus (*CMD, *MNU) objects you can set the PRDLIB, which cause the specified library to be inserted between the system library list and the user library list in the library list order. This provides a nice wa...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

    Certified Port 9920 - possibility to change the date of creation and end of validity

    The ability to recreate a certificate with a start date and an end date. Actully you can only change the end date and there is no possibility to change the creation date.
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Under review

    Make managing ciphers in QSSLCSL easier using 2-digit cipher codes and use these codes everywhere

    It would be easier to manage ciphers in the system value using the 2-digit codes simply because ciphers also have to be managed in SST (SSLCONFIG/TLSCONFIG) where the 2-digit code in required when adding/removing ciphers to the eligible list. Give...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    Provide ability to control SSL counters (in SST) from OS command line using an API

    We are running v7r4 and find the SSL counters that are available within SST very useful. A challenge we face is that due to our a weekly system interruption for full system save and IPL, these counters are disabled and get reset. It would desirabl...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

    5733-icc allow/support from local files in qsys.lib

    manual says local file can't be in qsys.lib. If you create savf of file, library/schema as a savf and want to upload to cloud, this should be allowed, even if one has to use qsys.lib/mylib.lib/myfile.file method (it works)
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

    Enable possibility to remove servers no longer in CMC concept.

    When using the CMC Portal you get distracted, having information of servers, no longer in use. There is also subscription warning messages turning up. It.s annoying, we use cmc portal daily using Capcity Monitoring, Enterprise Pools2.0, Inventory ...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Under review

    RFE to request bundling of Anti Virus into the hmc application or some other AV software, Preferably Crowdstrike AV

    Adding an Antivirus engine would enhance protecting against vulnerabilities; real time monitoring, all would benefit in todays cyber attack environment
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

    PowerHA log hacmp.log file shows ERROR message for TieBreaker setup at node startup , but it is not really an error.

    This error is seen during starting first node. RSCT command chrsrc configures tiebreaker using Global Scope.But if the first node is started when the other node is completely down and thus not reachable, Global Scope is not usable.The error genera...
    about 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Under review

    Maintain paths returning PQ=1 in Failed status after reboot

    At the moment when a LUN inquiry returns Peripheral Qualifier (PQ)=1, the path to the LUN is considered in Failed status. In the event of a LUN path temporarily changing to Unavailable (ASC/ASCQ 0x04/0x0C ) and therefore setting PQ=1, that situati...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Under review

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.