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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IBM i

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    Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

    Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    RPO History and Thresholds

    With asynchronous replication sessions in PowerHA, recovery point objective (RPO) type information is currently displayed in fields like data exposure and freeze time. However, this information is not retained for historical purposes and the regul...
    9 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Navigator for i - Trivializing SIEM Integration

    Problem Statement Network and Security Operation Centers have a high desire to utilize SIEM technologies to centralize the logging of health, service status, system status, etc... of various appliances (both hard and software) in the enterprise. A...
    9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Do not HOLD job schedule entries with CFGSTRPRSC on Source lpar

    Since version 5.2 of the FSFC toolkit, the startup program is not replaced anymore with STRFSFLASH. Instead, command CFGSTRPRSC must be placed in the system's startup program. With this command. the job schedule entries are put on HOLD and afterwa...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Allow 5733-ICC APIs to be thread safe.

    Any one who wanted to use the Cloud APIs in a threaded environment.
    6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

    Google Pub/Sub support on IBM i OS

    We have tried to develop a solution to interact with Google Pub/Sub directly on the IBMi and have been unable to due to restrictions related to the processor on the IBMi. This has included attempts to run a Python coded solution on the IBMi direct...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Submitted

    Performance Cycling at 12:00 AM on multiple Lpars cause CMC Enterprise core usage to peak lasting 800 microseconds giving very high average core usage

    Let.s say you have purchased IBM CMC Enterprise Pools2.0 concept, and you have license for 10 core and 1 core credit. Your average per minute usage is between 6-7 core all day. But a 12:00 AM when performance collection is cycled on all your ibm i...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Submitted

    Add ability to change font/size in IBM i Access product

    Some of us do are not so young anymore, and do not have the eyesight required to deal with tiny fonts. On the IBM i Access Client Solutions panel, the menu options (File, Edit, View, Actions, etc.) and their drop-down items are in a nicely sized f...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Submitted

    Make pytorch available for install from ACS/Open Source Package Managment.

    It would be much more practical, and much easier to install pytorch/ppc64 from a well known place. As for now, it's really hard to find instructions of where and how to install a version of pytorch, built for the Power PC architecture.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

    SSL/TLS Enable IBM Fix Central Java (JNLP File) PTF Downloads

    IBM Fix Central's Java (JNLP) Downloads currently use Non-secure TCP Ports 8470 thru 8476 on the Target AS400/iSeries. We're in the process of locking down Non-secure TCP Ports in favor of their corresponding SSL/TLS Ports 9470 thru 9476. We canno...
    11 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Submitted

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