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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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    Enhance maximum variable length to 4GB

    More and more we need to handle data with sizes over 16MB ie XML, so it would help a lot if it was possible to handle the maximum amount of data in a variable. Therefore I would like to have the possibility to define variables in RPG with a size o...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

    HMC tab replacement for QLZARCAPI

    When licensing software for an LPAR of IBM i we are often asked to do the following on that LPAR: CALL QCMD CALL QLZARCAPI This generates a screen like the following attachment This is tough to do on an lpar that we’ve not restored the OS on to ye...
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Support for non-english characters in Novalink VNC console for aix/linux lpar

    Novalink supports non-english characters for IBM i console, but currently has no option for AIX or Linux to support VNC console with non-english characters. this is needed for countries which would like to host LPARs with languages other than Engl...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVM NovaLink 0 Submitted

    Add silent recovery to Scratch Install/Restore on IBM i, to help Migrate While Active (MWA) be fully automatic.

    Besides Migrate While Active have some issues building the NFS install server (take a look at the TFTP setup), there are tasks asking for manual operation. We work migrating customers with IBM i and AIX to Power Virtual Servers and other clouds, a...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 Mirror 4 Under review

    PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

    Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
    about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Extend the TSD database to include everything that ships with AIX

    Currently, there are many binaries/libraries that are not part of the TSD. As a direct result of this, enabling Trusted Execution produces a large volume of logging. Another side effect is that it's effectively a non-starter to set Trusted executi...
    about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    LDAP configuration in HMC poses a security risk with "Bind Password"

    When configuring LDAP on the HMC console, you are required to enter the 'Bind Password'. This password is masked with dots instead of characters, but there is a button next to the password field that allows you to reveal it.From a security perspec...
    about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    LVM mirroring across VGs (enables eg. online FS migration from one vg to another)

    LVM is great and has been for decades. Many LVM manipulations can be done online without unmounting filesystems or stopping the applications, which is an advantage compared to other OS's. There are, however, still a few things that require to stop...
    2 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Remove permissions from catalog files

    Here is a reproducible example Signon on QSECOFR or a profil with *secadm create a table CREATE TABLE LIB.CLIENTBQ ( NUMERO DEC ( 5) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, NOM CHAR ( 20) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, IBAN CHAR ( 14) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT) remove public ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

    We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
    8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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