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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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IBM Cloud Support Notifications

When sending email updates on support cases, can you include the current case status (maybe former too)? I ask because, often I create cases and your team will update it in the portal to say they are researching or something similar. I then get an...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Under review

Refactor the Network tab when deploying new LPAR

In PowerVC 2.0.3 when you deploy a VM from the UI, when you have more than 500 networks in the list, the page is totally unusable correctly. Instead of having the list of ALL the networks already populated, it would probably be better to be able ...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PyPowerVM should have a Remove License Key API

PyPowerVM does not have functionality to remove licenses via Novalink.
over 3 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

SMBC fileset unable to handle multi-domain environments without using SPN

We are currently not able to use the smbc fileset with smbv2 to implement file shares between Windows-Server and AIX. From what I understand from my support case, it is not able to handle multi-domain environments without using SPN.
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Need enhancements to ADDSVRAUTE and CHGSVRAUTE command functionality

The use of the ADDSVRAUTE and CHGSVRAUTE commands is limited and prevents us from communicating with more than 1 system without changing the SVTAUTE command. To communicate with additional systems, the CHGSVRAUTE command has to be used to set the ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Not under consideration

Cast string value to specified CCSID

How do you convert a character field with embedded UCS2 characters into a UCS2 field? It would be nice to be able to substring out a bit and just say that this piece is already UCS2, don't convert it. The only thing we can do right now is say "con...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

Find/Replace a string in multiple source members

I am requesting the ability to Find and Replace a text string in multiple source members at the same time.We currently have the ability to search (find) members containing a string... We can export that to a member filter to do various actions (co...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

RFE - 130273 is not implemented in AIX 7200-04-02

The below RFE was supposed to be implemented with 7200-04-02 release. We still have problem removing the TCP fileset. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=130273
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

SQL Add ANCHOR DATA To (%TYPE) functionality

The lack of support for the %TYPE or ANCHOR DATA TO for data declarations affects our ability to port databases that use this functionality. We are looking at porting a Postgres based application to IBM i and have a large number of functions that ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Add separate IPv6 statistics for the SEA device, so that statistical monitoring commands can report

During the investigation of an IPv6 related Case on guest LPARs of VIOS, Support noted that investigation of the issue would have been simplified if the SEA device on the VIOS reported IPv6 statistics in addition to IPv4 statistics. Implementing t...
over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration