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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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HMC - PEP XML Preview

We use Power Enterprise Pools extensively. We have found that the XML provided by IBM after a resource purchase is not always correct and adversely affects our running POWER servers.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

ACS Printing Issue about Chinese UDC, Missing Paper Size and Printing Width

Issue: ACS is missing printing paper size - US Standard Fanfold in Win10. Based on the testing done with IBM supporting team, we believed it is not the issue about Windows or the Printer driver, since other applications such as Office Word can fin...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Change HTTP admin server from running under QSECOFR

Change HTTP Admin servers from running under QSECOFR Use Case: This cases the previous sign on to be updated when no one is signing on.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Live Kernel Update (LKU) with AIX Accounting enabled

Currently LKU (live kernel update) is not possible when using the AIX accounting subsystem.Also stopping the subsystem before the LKU is not possible since the 'aacctdd' kernel extension does not unload properly !Please provide a way to make use o...
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Encrypted bootable AIX mksysb Tape

As confirmed in IBM ticket: TS001985362, currently there's no encryption available for mksysb to tape. We'd like to put up this feature request for the encryption feature to be available in the bootable mksysb tape for AIX.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to "bind specific" most TCP/IP servers and clients

When I serve up multiple TCP/IP interfaces (IBM i itself and the numerous Domino, WAS, etc it also supports) I would like the ability to "bind specific" many of the servers and clients such as telnet, ftp, CIMOM, etc.Numerous security issues:- Net...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 11 Not under consideration

HOST PRINT TRANSFORM

Enable HOST PRINT TRANSFORM to convert PCL and PDF documents to IMAGE like it does for AFPDS output streams. Use Case: Document Management systems need to be able to support images being marked up and security to add redactions. Years ago I worked...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Not under consideration

file download / upload request via 5250 (using 5250 data stream or a different TCP/IP port)

High level download/upload function synchronously integrated in the 5250 terminal. Allow for simple interactive file upload / download request using normal terminal 5250 workflow. i.e. an RPG programmer can request to push an IFS file to a 5250 AC...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

IBMi SST user id screen position issue

Issue with screen positioning on system service tool -user ids modification page Use Case: After making a changes in the privileges for one SST profile and hit F12 to come back on previous screen to continue making privilege changes in next profil...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

BRMS PTF Security

There were changes make in the latest BRMS PTF that require user profile to enrolled with *AUT before they can use BRMS function which wasn't required previously. Use Case: Provide a way to proactively identify user that require SETUSRBRM before e...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Not under consideration

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