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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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A more conventional filesystem than /QSYS.LIB

Please create a new filesystem that allows access to QSYS objects using a more "conventional" layout (i.e., not reminiscent of the AS/400). e.g., Don't include object type in the name. Treat libraries and multi-member files as directories (no need...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL Interconnection, CXL 3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL 4.0 based on PCIe7

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

ACS copy with formatting

When copying from a terminal session, it would be great if there was a way to copy the text with formatting (foreground and background color). It could be a separate option (as Copy as Table) or multiple formats (text, RTF, HTML) copied to the Cli...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Alerting by email when threshold is exceeded

Hello, In the Capacity Monitoring settings, we can set thresholds But when a threshold il exceeded, it appears in red in the interface but no alert is sent by email. We would like to be able to receive this alert by email Cordialy François Maliverney
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Needs more information

common commands for HMC

I understand the HMC platform being an appliance, but, sometimes we want to process the results of the output from the HMC on the HMC rather than outside for performance reasons. We would like to have some of the more common commands available , l...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Implement a "News and Updates" function into the GUI

Implement a news and Updates function which would download the latest updates to a temporary folder on the PowerVC system, along with a file describing any of the latest news and usage tips for customers. One purpose of this is to promote the inst...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Adding Spool files in Missed Object Policy

We can see now Missed object policies do not support folder and documents or spooled files. , If we can add these also, it will useful for for many back up errors
11 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

Allow default setting of 'home' and 'shell' user attributes

Some customers will have their system's users defined remotely through LDAP or a similar module; these users might be defined on Windows AD, for example. Although typically there should be the ability to set a user's home directory and shell on th...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Avoid partition failure when not enough memory is available in machine pool and adding volumes through virtual FC adapters

The PMR describes an IBM i microcode failure (it hangs and forcing an IPL is the unique way to restore) when both conditions apply to a logical partition:1-adding a lot of external storages volumes through virtual fibre channel adapters2-not enoug...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration

Provide public API in JTOpen to clear a user's "Message Waiting" status

In 5250, there is a concept of a “message light/waiting” that is on/off to show whether a user has received a new message when the *NOTIFY message option is set on their user profile. If the user is logged in to a 5250 session, and they get a new ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration