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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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The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC.

The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC. This should also be available for the entire managed system. The energy costs calculated down to the work performed is becoming increasingly important for customers when th...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

keep alive or timeout within the LPR/LPD process to the IBM i for remote output queues to recover without having to end and restart the writer.

IBM i was sending data to the printer. The connection was dropped and both the IBM i and printer are waiting indefinitely for a response from the other side." the current design of LPR/LPD on IBM i does not have a keep alive or timeout setting. Th...
3 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

IBM i Services for the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS)

IBM i is moving into the direction of adding SQL service to nealry every part of the operating system, except for the Advanced Job Scheduler. To my knowledge there are none. Since the license simplification the use of the Advanced Job Scheduler is...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Generate_Spreadsheet function needs ability to Kill the Java Daemon

We use Generate_Spreadsheet scalar function to create xlsx spreadsheets from data files in IBM i. According to the documentation i have read and conversations with IBM support this function is basically using the ACS base for its functionality. Wh...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

HMC automated installation

It's possible to have option for fully automated installation physical HMC and virtual HMC ? This is time consuming in case IBM support request as part of solution reinstallation of HMC code and restore configuration from backup. It will simplify ...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

UAK expiry - send an alert from the HMC before it expires

When a UAK expires it creates a lot of noise - the attention LED is lit against a managed system, a serviceable event is generated/sent and an alert sent to every LPAR on the managed system. Whilst I am aware that it is possible to automate the UA...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

user customizable HMC smtp event-notification

The existing HMC smtp event-notification feature is suboptimal. It is missing essential information and email subject is cosmetic verbiage. Make it possible for user to customize subject and mail content extracted from HMC serviceable-events. The ...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

RGZPFM option MBR(*ALL )

Enable the use *ALL on option MBR for the RGZPFM command for a hash partitioned table.
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Under review

Addition of Critical Security Patch Comparison Features via SQL Query

Currently, managing critical security patches is a major priority for IT teams to ensure the security of systems and sensitive data. However, the task of comparing applied security patches with known vulnerabilities listed in the CVE database can ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log.

If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log. So, if there are no log entries the clavan cmd says "clavan: Not able to analyze application availability because both th...
3 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted