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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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Will the compatibility with AIX7.2 and/or AIX 7.3 will be announced with the product PAM_HBAC (Host Based Access Control)

Hello, Will the compatibility with AIX7.2 and/or AIX 7.3 will be announced with the product PAM_HBAC (Host Based Access Control).At the moment, pam_hbac runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris (tested on Oracle Solaris 11 and Omnios) but not on AIX.
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

RBAC: ruid must accept all possible values

ruid attribute in privileged commands database sets the real user ID during command execution. It helps to drop off SUID bit from binaries and transfer them under RBAC management. Unfortunately the attribute can have only one value - 0. It means o...
7 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Basic subfile/maintenance generator for a given table_schema, and table_name

We have UPDDTA to edit individual records of a file. We have RUNQRY for displaying all file records. It would save a lot of development time when we can have a default built-in subfile handler for any given table. => Shift F8, F9 to move subfil...
7 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

CMC don't provide any possibility to see number of sockets used vs purchased in subscription.

Would be great to see in CMC number of sockets used and number of sockets purchased by subscription. Such data should be accessible also via REST API
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Restrict root user to decrypt the mongodb password file

MongoDB requires a password for login and db passwords are stored in a file that is encrypted on the host. root has the ability to decrypt this file. As a result, we do have the possibility of access (sort of hacking) to the database. We request I...
7 months ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

Please make the newer HMC models like the 7063-CR1 & 7063-CR2 models be able to read USB flash drives formatted as exFAT or NTFS. The latest service pack ISO file for V10R1 (Service Pack 1021) is 5 GB and is too large to go on a USB drive formatted as FAT32. The HMC is onlt able to read FAT32 formatted flash drives so I can't do my service pack update using a USB flash drive. I have to perform using the network method which is a bit more cumbersome. If the HMC was updated to allow USB format exFAT or NTFS then I could do ISO updates that are larger than 4 GB using the USB flash drive like I have always done in the past. Thanks.

Makes it more convenient for everybody using the HMC to do updates.
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

SAML Intergration with CMC

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a standard for logging users into applications based on their identity in another context. This single sign-on (SSO) login standard has significant advantages over logging in using a username/password: ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Applying PTFs wrecks the Java certificate store

When we are applying PTFs then the Java certificate store is wrecked. The certificates, we have added here, are removed and every time we have to remember to add all the certificates we have added. This should be changed so the installation of PTF...
4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Submitted

Allow conditional service break point in iASP environment

Conditional service breakpoints do not work in an iASP environment. The 'WHEN' clause on a service breakpoint does not work in an iASP envrionment. We have thousands of jobs and threads servicing tens of thousands of customer connections to our sy...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Submitted

Restore useful links to IBM i Planning and remove worthless generic site.

The planning site underneath https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=irs-related-information-installing-upgrading-deleting-i-related-software called "IBM Planning" could not possibly be any more useless. It should go to the good site. The good sit...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 0 Submitted