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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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Found one Total Inactive Cores at CMC but where is it missed ?

Hi i have seen on our CMC that one Core was missing but i have no idea on thich Fram nor why. Would be useful when my mouse goes over the field Total inactive Cores the CMC shows me the Frame name (See uploaded screenshot)
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Enable possibility to remove servers no longer in CMC concept.

When using the CMC Portal you get distracted, having information of servers, no longer in use. There is also subscription warning messages turning up. It.s annoying, we use cmc portal daily using Capcity Monitoring, Enterprise Pools2.0, Inventory ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Under review

Support of selecting Network either pre defined or Infoblox

Hiwe want to use normal tcp funtionality as it is defined in Neutron on PowerVC today and additionally support for Infoblox. The problem is that i cannot define networks with either "Normal" networks in Powervc and Infoblox. Also we need the abili...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC and SAN visualizer

From PowerVC I would like to get a VM´s zoning information.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Provide error handler for secondary thread of multi-threaded job

When a multi-threaded job encounters an unhandled exception, the system should be able to gracefully handle the error with the standard *INQ message to *EXT or QSYSOPR. Background When an unhandled exception occurs in the secondary thread of a mul...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

"Open Declaration" should actually open the declaration

When doing a "Open Declaration" on an externally defined procedure or field, RDi simply jumps to the line in the existing source where the procedure or field is imported. This is the easy way out and is not very helpful. Use Case: In the case of c...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Distingusihing between Members open for edit and for browse in LPEX editor

When multiple members are opened in the LPEX editor pane, some in edit mode, some in browse mode, you cannot tell at a glance which is which. You have to click on the tab and look for the BROWSE term in the edit area. The request is to have someth...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

RPG LE Level Break Subroutines for Free-format

We need RPG LE level break subroutines for use in free-format so that fixed-format C-specs do not need to be coded at all for level break processing. Currently I not only have to code a fixed-format F-spec and I-spec in order for the RPG Cycle to ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Not under consideration

Support Flashcopy for PowerVS

Please add the capability to do flashcopy operations for iASPs to enable off-line backups for PowerVS with Geo-mirror.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

Yum on AIX - Avoid yumrepo listing via http and use another Method

Hi Team, We are using yum on AIX and using https to list the RPM's and the directories same as its listed at IBM site https://developer.ibm.com/articles/configure-yum-on-aix/. For Example: We are using baseurl and https as suggested by IBM (exampl...
about 3 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration