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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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NIM HA resource synchronization enhancements

• The current NIM HA feature provides resource synchronization as a single "atomic" operation. Meaning, the sync is sequential, cannot be iterative, and will error when resource duplication is unable to complete as part of the manual "push" operat...
almost 10 years ago in AIX Delivered

Modify RDp to support an SSL debug session

It would be helpful to provide support for debug sessions running under SSL. Use Case: A good example is debugging a program that handles personal information, such as credit card number, after decryption. Duing a debug session, the information is...
almost 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Delivered

Update BIND in AIX

We use AIX as our DNS backbone and all our DNS Servers are running on AIX. Now we need features in BIND that have been released many years ago (e. g. DNSSEC), but AIX 7.2 still ships BIND 9.4.1, the same as AIX 7.1 and AIX 6.1 (!). Even BIND 9.8 w...
almost 10 years ago in AIX Delivered

Report formats (details / summary) for single compliance scan

Reports generated after compliance scan - Currently we have mail1,mail2,mail3,mail4 -> mapped to single alert style(either 0,1,2)we want like mail1,mail3 -> alert style 1mail2,mail4 -> alert style 3This can help avoiding multiple scan run...
about 5 years ago in PowerSC 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...
about 15 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Delivered

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?
about 10 years ago in Hardware Management Console Delivered

Removal of Profile from Agent

Question : If a profile is deleted on PowerSC server but it is still showing greyed out some times.Response from IBM - PowerSC does not automatically “push” deletion of a profile to every endpoint. For example, you create customProfile1 and push i...
about 5 years ago in PowerSC 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.
about 10 years ago in AIX Delivered

AIX jfs2 scsi unmap support

jfs2 does not support scsi unmap feature
about 10 years ago in AIX 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...
about 10 years ago in Hardware Management Console Delivered

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