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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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Provide info for current Power usage per Managed Frame with HMC cli command

Hi, for data collection / automation purposes it would be great to have current Power usage per Managed Frame available via HMC cli command like: Name=power-frame-d01, power_usage=859.556 watts Currently the data is available on HMC GUI & HMC ...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Option to set "correct" time when cold starting partition

This idea is especially for IBMi partitions, but maybe other platforms have similar requirements. There are ibmi partitions, for example -cold stand-by / DR purposes or -that are started from resp. created by a flash copy operation (starting the l...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

IBM i DCM - Last used timestamp for each certificate

For the purpose of housekeeping the certificate stores in IBM i DCM, it would be very useful to enhance DCM to be able to show the "Last Used Time Stamp" and also "Use Count" for EACH certificate in the store so that system admin can efficiently s...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Provide a way to display the current smbc reauthentication timer value for a share

EMC servers don't accept asynchronous authentication data (in other words, a Session Setup Request with new credentials sent on an already established session). They return an error, interrupting service. Since reauthentication can't be disabled i...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add a search zone in the ACS Session Manager

In the IBM ACS session manager, would it be possible to add a search box where you could enter the first few letters of the session name and only sessions starting with these letters would be displayed in the session list? Thank you
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

When enabling MFA for user in powervc we would like to have the QR code printed on the screen not by email

Powervc users we use have no email address configured (for security reasons) We would like to have the QR code or a passkey presented on the powervc CLI not by email to the specific user.
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Enable in IBM i Navigator for i Monitors the option to press F4 to set the IBM i trigger command

I use and recommend the System & Messages Monitor from IBM Navigator for i. I think we can improve this tool adding the great F4 option to built the command in the trigger command. If I'm not wrong now I must built it on green screen and then ...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

SRCSTMF parameter for CRTDSPF

As we are using more and more modern ways and tools to develop our software, it really hurts that one has to copy DDS sources to a member in a temporary source physical file in order to be able to create a display file. I’m pretty sure that it wou...
8 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

CMC alerting into e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, etc. .

CMC notifies customers by e-mail. However, most customers use a central monitoring application such as Nagios, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, etc.. CMC alerts should also be sent to the customer's monitoring application. Which the IT-Operations team is mo...
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

SEP in VS Code to debug any user or all users

When using a Service Entry Point to debug in Visual Studio Code, it is important to be able to debug other users' jobs. Currently, it will only break if the program is being run under the same user that started the debug session. Being able to spe...
2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted