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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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Present All New Password validation errors at once.

I am a consultant. I work on MANY systems each with their own set of password rules. At times I spend as much as half a bloody hour changing my password. WHY? Because I do not have access to their password rules. As such I attempt a new password. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

LSVG -P does not issue any warning or errors when multiple PVs have duplicate PVIDs. It may list PVs that are not part of the volume group.

Every day, we clone all of the PVs in select volume groups, then run cfgmgr to make them accessible. Our normal first step is to clear and reset the PVID of each of the new PVs. Then use those PVs to recreate a new cloned version of the original v...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add SIEM support to PowerVC GUI

We run PowerVC in an environment where security is key. To facilitate this, we are running a SIEM appliance; this is a central monitoring device, setup to receive information from all kinds of systems, to collect security-relevant data. Reports fr...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

Trying to store in a file and print Subscript on AS400

We are developing a new coal system for an existing client. We need to be to add different chemical make ups to print on certificates they that will supply their customers. For example H20 for water, the 2 is slightly under the rest. I thought the...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Not under consideration

Better Locale support in the HMC GUI

The locale support seems to have little impact in the GUI. Changing the default en_US.UTF-8 American English(UTF-8) to en_GB.UTF-8 British English(UTF-8) seemingly doesn't change anything. The date format on the task list is still MM-DD-YY rather ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Increase the number of hosts supported by VMR

Currently VMR is limited to 12 Hosts.Some customers have more than 12 hosts. Therefore they need to have a solution which supports more than 12 Hosts. A support for 64 Hosts may be a good starting point.
almost 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC SSP Storage Clone and Snapshot

Currently, I am unable to clone a VM which has a boot volume on a SSP. I am also unable to snapshot a VM that has a boot volume on the SSP, and therefore unable to restore it as well. Since SSP is supported, it'd be great if this feature can be ad...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

add support for AIX and IBM i in yarnpkg

Yarn is a package manager for Javascript projects (https://yarnpkg.com/). It is used in many open and closed source projects for dependency management. As for now yarn doesn't support big endian architectures, such as AIX and IBM i. It means, that...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Display local and remote site resource totals

Create a new command to show a total of the local resources for all the managed VMs and the total resources of the remote hosts. These totals should include CPU and memory resources.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Concurrent Update of ifixes

IBM support should provide concurrent ifixed per default where possible, based on the installed customer (combined) ifixes. Currently customer have to ask several times!More than one „hot patch“ against the kernel without reboot would be very welc...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration