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).


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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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    AIX 7.2/7.3 EFS PCI DSS v4.0 Compliance

    PCI DSS v4.0 requires sensitive customer data to be encrypted at the file level. File security and volume level encryption are not sufficient. We believe EFS meets the PCI 4.0 standard but it is not documented anywhere.
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Provide MFA support for IBM Storage via PowerSC MFA

    Useful because the customer does not need another MFA solution for his Power Systems and IBM Storage
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

    When delete user profile(DLTUSRPRF), disregard user with IASP which cause failure.

    Power HA admin domain has issue with user that has job description with initial asp set, while trying to delete user profile. Receive message below on source: CPIBB12 Resource MFERNAN7 is inconsist> CPFBB2E Job submission failed for cluste> ...
    5 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Increase errpt time granularity to milliseconds

    Modify the timestamp associated to the error messages in errpt to milliseconds (or even ns) to provide better correlation capacity with other elements (switches, storage arrays, ...) Currently when evaluating entries in errpt the maximum granulari...
    10 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Graphic tool or sql service to know the percentage of use of the tapes.

    Currently there is no tool or any sql service that helps to know the percentage of use/free is a tape device. For now there is only this old method to calculate it. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-much-data-and-how-much-free-space-available-...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Submitted

    Modify ulimit to display the lesser of nproc or maxuproc

    As per this site https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-ulimit-and-maxuproc ulimit was recently changed to display a more accurate value than "unlimited" when nproc is -1, and instead show the maxuproc that provides the real limit.This helps provid...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    D-IPL from VTL in IBM Cloud for IBMi VSI builds

    As far as I can see, there is no straightforward process to install IBMi VSIs in Cloud. There is a long winded process of setting up an NFS, adding image catalog, populating the catalog, sharing it, etc. If I have a system save of the on-prem imag...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 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 3 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 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 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

    Make Postgres 15.6 available in OpenSourceManagement

    the latest supported version of Postgres on IBMi is 12.17-1 but Postgres 12 is getting EOL on Nov 2024 when will Postgres 15.6 become available in OpenSourceManagement
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

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