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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 4467

Change SPOOLED_FILE_DATA so *SCS spooled files with ICGDTA(*YES) can be search

I wrote a routine to allow me to present spooled files in VS Code and open them into an edit tab, I can also download the spooled file. These actions use CPYTOSPLF. I also wrote a routine that uses SPOOLED_FILE_DATA but some *SCS reports are not a...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Under review

DUPTAP performance should be improved

We recently found out, that DUPTAP has an expected behaviour that it takes twice as long as the SAVE-process. If the save-process exceeds 8 hours than one day (i.e. 24hrs) will not be enough to create a duplicate of the tape which is a requirement...
4 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Use 'IN' operator on %split to compare like in %list

When working with a list represented in a string, with %split, the 'IN' operator cannot be used as it can with the function %list. However, it is necessary to have this functionality in order to check if certain elements are present in a string li...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Call Home test for vHMC

At the moment there is no way to check, if vHMC Call Home configuration is working properly.As verified by IBM Support Case neither "Test connection" during configuration wizard nor "Creating a serviceable event" with checked flag "Test problem re...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

Improving Certificates Management in powervc-backup and powervc-restore

The powervc-backup tool requires enhancement to incorporate a valuable feature that verifies the expiration status ( in the next six months) of certificates utilized for web UI, messaging, and Virtual Console during the backup process. Moreover, w...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

HMC nmon

HMC nmon implementation or enhancement of monhmc
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Using SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET to export data to excel, using an existing excel template.

Be able to use an excel template, SPREADSHEET_TEMPLATE, to put the generated data in, setting sheet SPREADSHEET_SHEET and cell SPREADSHEET_CELL where to start put the data.
11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

User friendly logging of any change activity on HMC for LPAR and Power Server itself

Would like to have a recording of activities like change,add,remove things for LPAR and/or Power Server in the HMC. The task window is not enough and shows only minimal change information.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

GLVM for 3 locations (sides)

Currently GLVM only support 2 sides.However, the LVM is able to manage 3 copies.Specially for IBM Cloud environments it is required to get GLVM to support 3 sides. So that the full capability of the AIX LVM can be utilized.
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.