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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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Read Only Access for individual PEP2.0 pools in the CMC

Read only access to the Enterprise Pools in the CMC is a wonderful thing that is almost complete. What is missing is the ability to be more granular. Right now , the person with Read Only access gets access to ALL of the pools in the CMC. This is ...
10 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Add options to use different shared Filesystems for SAP Smart Assist

When using PHA SAP Smart Assist it is required to use NFS 4.It would be very helpful to have an option to use NFS 3 or ISS (GPFS) instead.
over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

Notifications and Alerting

Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
3 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

RBAC for PowerHA and AdminDomain

It would be helpful to provide product level security where not everyone can access administrative tasks. View access vs. Admin access.
3 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

The x86 image should also be provided for Nutanix, as more customers migrate from VMWare to Nutanix

Flexible IBM Power solutions for the customer
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Enhanced Remote RSTLICPGM with License Acceptance Parameter

Current Limitation Today, when you run RSTLICPGM, if the product requires license acceptance, the system: Prompts interactively on the green screen OR requires a separate manual step using a CL program or override to accept the license This makes ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

IBM needs to identify access paths for self-training on IBM i

Free access IBM i systems like PUB400.COM have up to the present been critical in the community at providing venues for self-training in IBM i. I and others in the community consider it absolutely necessary that such venues continue, and the IBM t...
3 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted