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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    Static Monitors against a policy on IBMi

    Instana is not able to handle static monitoring. Some monitors are static in nature like which are contractually setup on each LPAR based on application and ITSS security requirements. We have some policies setup on the IBMi system and we monitor ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

    Add ability to run custom SQL statements in New Navigator for i

    A lot of admins have written their own custom SQL querys to handle various things on the systems. since the new Navigator for i is SQL based, could we have the ability to run those queries from the new navigator?
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 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...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 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.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    WRKSMTPUSR - Same alias may be used for more than one user when unique for each domain.

    In CHGSMTPA we have 3 different domain. We have these users: FAKTURA1 e-mail: post@bladetmotgift.no FAKTURA5 e-mail: post@bladetfokus.no FAKTURA6 e-mail: post@bladetbevis.no In WRKDIRE there is no problem, but in WRKSMTPUSR it's not possible. TCP5...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 6 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,...
    about 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.
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

    Auto Generate file open for RPG IV

    I can generate Procedures, D-Specs, and Java Method Calls from a right click menu in the LPEX editor for RPG. It would be useful if I could generate file opens as well. It should work like this: 1. Right click in the editor, and select New -> F...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

    novalink selection of IP interface

    Add interface selection to Novalink to allow correct network solution
    about 8 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

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