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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    DBCS Support for WSCST(*PDF)

    When IBM came out woth PDF transform capabilities for Spool Files using Transfor Services 'WSCST(*PDF)' we were very excited. Our hope was that it would alleviate our current transform solution which takes a lot of development cycles to maintain. ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Future consideration

    VIOS upgrade using Enhanced+ HMC GUI

    Enhanced+ HMC GUI has given a new option to create VSCSI drives without a need of logging into VIOS. If we can bring an option to upgrade/Update the VIOS without logging in using the HMC GUI it will reduce the workload of Customer and no separate ...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC support for Diskimage-builder

    The customer is currently using Diskimage-builder for to prepare and build all SOE's (including other platforms such as Intel). Customer is seeking official support for this tool to package SOE images for PowerVC to use.
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    SUMA schouldn't download superseded packages

    We use SUMA to download the latest fixes for a specific AIX-TL once a week. Every week the same set of files gets downloaded and is being removed immediately during lppmgr cleanup afterwards because a newer one is already present (and skipped duri...
    almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    COBOL compiler option STDINZ required be enhanced to initialize variables

    COBOL compiler option STDINZ required to be enhanced to initialize variables based on the data type. E.g. Numeric fields to be initialize with Zeros, Character fields to be initialized with Blanks etc. This is to avoid initialization issues of the...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

    Tool to automate rebuild of DCM USRIDX QUSRSYS/QYCDCERTI

    I have a corrupted *USRIDX QUSRSYS/QYCDCERTI which is causing numerous DCM errors and multiple software problems with QYCDCUSG to be logged, when using the DCM. Unfortunately, recovery involves deleting certificate assignments and manually rebuild...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

    More flexible list

    When defining a Web Service using IWS it's only possible to limit the size of the returned list by selecting a return parameter that is placed as a first level parameter field when using the "Count" feature or by using the hard coded feature "Dete...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

    prevent "find: bad status--"

    Intermittent problem with "find". If the directory contains thousands of files, sometimes "find" reports "find: bad status". I guess that find does a snapshot of files under provided directory. Then, it "fstat" each file to know if it meets comman...
    almost 6 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    HMC ESA / Call Home Setup using ALIAS instead of IP Address as SSL Proxy

    System: HMCActor: Client needs additional feature Client is using HMC to manage Power Server with multiple AIX Partitions. Since this is a production server, they wanted to setup the ESA/Call home feature. Description:In the ESA / Call home setup,...
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Add prefered site option to the tiebreaker solution in PHA

    When using the current tiebreaker solution for split brain protection then it's a random based decision which site will win. For some setup it would be helpful if there would be an option to define a preferred site.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

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