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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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within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNav

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. As an example, Job name contains QBAT, QINT I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNavigator
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Provide a command-line utility to modify AIX's ldap.cfg file

If there were a command-line utility (similar to the 'chsec' command) that could be used to modify ldap.cfg, this will: 1) prevent syntax errors by checking the modifications you are attempting to make 2) allow for modification of the file by a cu...
7 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

New Customer Portal for Increased Support Experience

I would like to propose a new main support portal for clients. In the portal you would be able to have a interface in which you could input your customer ID number or numbers depending on if you manage multiple IBM Power systems across different o...
7 months ago in Power Systems Design 2 Submitted

I'm using the audit data mart in web Navigator, please add an option to schedule the "refresh" job when the journal receiver gets changed.

currently we can have an advanced job scheduler job added to run at a specific time. This is great but allows for the possibility of missing journal receiver entries. I would like to add the option to run the audit journal data mart process when t...
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

MFA sur le pop-up de connexion apache

Nous souhaiterions activer le facteur d’authentification supplémentaire (MFA) en frontal, au niveau de la connexion pop-up Apache.
7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

New -l (list) flag for 'vmruiinst.ksh' to show URL of all RPMs to download

Currently the GUI vmruiinst.ksh script provides -d & -p flags to download required RPMs from the Internet (see Case TS019597256).Bust many Clients do not have an AIX LPAR with Internet connection therefore it's a problem for them to download a...
8 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Add 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO

Adding 'Jobs Using Connection' details to QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO would provide valuable information when investigating connectivity issues. It would also bring the QSYS2.NETSTAT_INFO service inline with the information provided via the NETSTAT *CNN co...
8 months ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Submitted

Advanced Job Scheduler - Increase job group size from 99 to 999 (# of jobs included in a group) (or at least more than 100)

We currently use a non-IBM job scheduler that frequently has over 100 jobs in the job grouping. We would like to use AJS to replace this product, but one of the limiting factors is only 99 jobs are allowed in a group.
8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Show under active users, the users connected to IBMi console.

Currently under active users, we can see the ones connected on the GUI (session ID X) and also connected in SSH (Session ID pts/x). But we can't see the ones connected using IBM i console connections through the HMC. It would be nice to have that ...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Submitted