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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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RFE for Apple about AIX Live Kernel Update preview phase checking for available storage and avaiable network IPs

Currently AIX Live Kernel update may fail due to lack of storage (Apple case TS013523804 ) or lack of available IPs (Apple case TS013523634 ). Apple contact asked, for both of these conditions that may cause LKU to fail, is this something that can...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

SSO HTTP transactions do not write X0 journal entry to QAUDJRN

All SSO interfaces write a X0 journal entry to QAUDJRN when a Service Ticket arrives. This is not true for the HTTP interface, for example IBM i Navigator for i. Use Case: X0 transactions can be a great help for troubleshooting but also tell how m...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

lock being dropped when an object is deleted

I'm going to describe this behaviour I think it's strange, although notsure if it's the normal way to work. When we exclusive lock a logical file, the physicals are also locked; Iunderstand this is normal. But, if we delete the logical while it'ss...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

New IBM i Service for NetServer

I would like an IBM i service to see all the IBM i NetServer configuration
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Add support for KDE, gnome or other open source desktop software

Give IBMi a GUI desktop capability other than current web based options. Use Case: Allow use of existing and future desktop based open source tools and applications. It could also be used as a central location for system administrative tasks and o...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Add command for displaying the hardware where a defined VM runs.

Ease of management, example when deleting a VM cli-wise it removes several steps (or the need for additional scripting to check all hw and find the lpar). Here also would be beneficial to present all VMs with the same name, to secure removal but a...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

RDi RPG editor - need a line that always shows what subroutine/proc that cursor is in

When I'm browsing or editing an RPG source member (of any kind), I would like to always see what is the name of the subroutine or procedure that my cursor is in so that I don't always have to scroll up to find out. This would be particularly helpf...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Subversion client needed for IBM i

A Subversion client for IBM i is needed for working with environments that use an existing svn server to get the repositories/packages installed on the IBM i for development or deployment. SVN clients are currently available and supported for Wind...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 7 Not under consideration

Allow creation of a System Plan when system set to power off automatically when the last logical partition is shutdown

Currently, if you try to create a System Plan from your HMC for a server that is set to automatically power down the server when the last logical partition is shutdown, you get an error message. The work around is to set the system hardware not to...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

RPG IV extension regarding license program 5770SS1-27-DB2-Multisystem

RPG IV provides a file information data structure with database specific feedback information. In position 397 of the FIDS there is an unsigned integer field for the relative record number. This field contains the RRN of the record which was affec...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration