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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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Need Netapp Storage for IBM Powervc

We purchased new P series servers and wanted to use our existing Netapp storage, and powervc was one great tool we were looking forward to working with and it's not even supportedon Netapp platform. If we cant soon use Netapp then we have to recon...
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

Please integrate Infinidat support into PowerVC

Please integrate Infinidat support into PowerVC. Looks like Infinidat already supports OpenStack Cinder. So it should be easy to do. https://support.infinidat.com/hc/en-us/articles/202403961-Configuring-InfiniBox-volume-driver-for-OpenStack-Cinder
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Additional ctrl-/ comment format option

In free form RPG code (any kind), how about a commenting option for "place two slashes in front of the selected line(s) where the left-most line currently begins and shift the selected line(s) right 2 spaces". The lines are already shifted right 2...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Maintenance mode : Migration Evaluation upfront to detect failures and prevent canceling all migrations

We would like to see the whole maintenance mode (also known as "evacuate mode") , check first if there are errors in the precheck and validation steps, and then put them aside if they are failed, and run the migrations of the good ones . At the sa...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

CPYPTF with SAVF

when you copy a ptf by the command CPYPTF .if you choise *SAVF It is not possible to send at the same time the savfs necessary for the processing of this PTFalso my dedande is to have this possibility for dispatch my ptfs to all my partitionsthank...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under consideration

Filter vtmenu's list of Managed Systems

The list of managed systems shown in vtmenu contains systems from both the primary and secondary sites.During the DR testing exercise at the secondary site there is the possibility of a production managed system being selected by mistake.The reque...
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Add command to obtain VPD from Managed Systems

There are no CLI commands available to the end-user to obtain a Managed System's VPD. Currently, the only way to obtain this information is to manually log into the ASMI -> System Information -> Vital Product Data
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

In RDI ability to exit program debug immediately as in F3 using green screen STRDBG

Using green screen STRDBG, while stepping through any program using F10, if the developer presses F3 to exit, the program stops running immediately. This is a bit of a safeguard to many developers where they know they can end a job midstream. This...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

Custom screen size

Provide an option for custom screen size.Example:Colum: 25Row: 25 Use Case: Using ACS over VNC with small devices like mobilphones.
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

SMBv2 support needed in IBM i 7.1

Customer scan and find a network risk for SMBv1. Refe to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=101946 SMBv2 is supported on V7R2 .but V7R1 still notNow customer use R710 . for network security concern. custoemr s...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration