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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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    Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

    This IBM Idea is was earlier posted https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-778 with my old company name, but now we changed the name from to ASNbank I could not monitor this idea any longer. Therefore summitted this idea again. Original submmited: Why ...
    3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Seamless Integration of PowerVC MFA with PowerSC for Centralized Security Compliance

    Currently, IBM PowerVC supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for user access. However, there is no way to integrate or enforce this MFA configuration within IBM PowerSC. This creates a gap in centralized compliance and security management bec...
    5 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

    viosupgrade command -- Add flag to auto-restore files saved by -g flag

    ** Update ** IBM have already catered for my "Idea" as they've provided the "-F forcecopy" flag on the "viosupgrade" command which achieves exactly what I'm after. Please "IGNORE" this idea As IBM already has a flag ( viosupgrade -g ) to automatic...
    5 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Submitted

    Fail the compile when source information cannot be inserted into the object

    When a module is created, the source information is inserted into the object description. There can be a situation where the source cannot be allocated to fetch the information. Instead of failing the compile, the source information inside the obj...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

    starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 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...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Submitted

    Enhancements in partition migration between different FC environments

    Hello,many times, we work in environments where partitions are migrated between servers that do not share the same hardware configuration (e.g., fewer FC cards, Ethernet cards, etc.).If the source server has a mapping of one virtual FC (vFC) adapt...
    3 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Enhancing network performance analysis on IBM i with iPerf Integration

    iPerf (iPerf - The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool) is a widely used command-line tool designed for measuring network performance by generating TCP and UDP traffic between two endpoints. It allows network administrators, engin...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    Download spool file as text UTF-16 from IBM Navigator for i

    In old client access, through navigator (desktop application), we could download spool file as UTF-16. But, In the new IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), through IBM Navigator for i, the spool file downloaded as UTF-8. Please, support, to downlo...
    3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 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

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