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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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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.

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On HMC format USB storage device using command line

on the Hardware Management Console is not possible to format USB storage device, or delete the content using CLI.If trough WEB console is possible to format USB storage device,why is not possible to do this in CLI?
almost 10 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

IPTRACE and TCPDUMP need to record in PCAPNG format

PCAPNG is the new format being used by wireshark to view network traffic. Encoding iptraces and tcpdumps in this format will allow better manipulation of packet trace files by customers and network support personnel at IBM and/or worldwide.
almost 10 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

AIX jfs2 scsi unmap support

jfs2 does not support scsi unmap feature
almost 10 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Provide ability to specify timeout for viosvrcmd command

HMC viosvrcmd command uses a global timeout when running vios commands. The timeout is 10 minutes. However, when running backupios command via viosvrcmd the command simply times out before completing the backup. By adding a timeout option to viosv...
almost 10 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Save Defines through Verify Options with same session

Save Defines set in Verify (Options) with the current session.Now, you must reset the defines every time you access Verify (Options) even with he same session. Use Case: System: Verifying code in RPGLE sourceActor: Customer Use cases for the syste...
almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Syntax highlighter for UIM Source

Probably silly, but I'd like to have at least a minimal syntax highlighter for UIM source. I personally use a lot of UIM and just seeing the language tags different than the rest of the text would be nice. When editing UIM source code that support...
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

PowerVC support for HMC 8.4 /VIOS 2.4

Customers would like to use PowerVC with HMC 8.4 and VIOS 2.4 which are the current releases of those products
about 10 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Ability?to?Masquerade?in?HMC?sendmail?config

We need help with sendmail masquerading in our HMC servers so that the sender address is changed in all mail and alerts sent from the server.
about 10 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Push To Client not saving customization of perspectives

Customization of perspectives (adding/removing menus, buttons, etc) is not saved/published when using the Push To Client feature. Use Case: Push-to-Client is a great feature for simplifying the roll-out of standard configuration and perspective cu...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Scalability for lsdevinfo when there are a large number of devices in the ODM

lsdevinfo can take a long time to run >30 minutes in large configurations. This impacts the HMC in several areas. The command lsdevinfo is not used by lshwres alone but by many other functions on HMC including the UI, REST API, PowerVM, NEO... ...
over 10 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered