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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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Allow AIX PCM to manage RootVG & DELL-EMC PowerPath to EMC LUNs

Enable AIX PCM (native multipath) to manage RootVG and DELL-EMC PowerPath to manage the Storage LUNs provisioned from DELL-EMC Storage Device
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Allow the Novalink partition to perform LPM operations

Currently LPM operations in PowerVC are performed via the GUI. Using this method also allows you to select which network (from the ones configured/available) that the operations occurs on. I think that this feature should be either via a command o...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

Make 'diff' command POSIX compliant with binary files

The 'diff' command is not POSIX compliant when it comes to binary files. The standard says: Diff Binary Output Format In the POSIX locale, if one or both of the files being compared are not text files, an unspecified format shall be used that cont...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Disable sensitive information on welcome page starting with version 8.6.0-SP1

Since update of 8.6.0 to SP1 the welcome page of the HMC displays different information from our hardware systems including information about servicable events etc.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

Need to have an option to check SRIOV physical port MAC address when it is used in shared mode

There should be an option to check SRIOV physical port MAC address when the adapter is used in shared mode. For now, HMC GUI list the physical port MAC address only if the frame is powered on with hardware discovery otherwise there is no way to fi...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

BRMS : RMVMEDIBRM - 68/5000 create a parameter to have the choice of a specific library

objective: to be able to select a single library Remove BRM support info (RMVMEDIBRM)                           ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

iAccess SQL when saving results give the result the name of the SQL script instead of Untitled

At first extra typing and second to have the results the same name as the script.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ARE sync PTF Coverletters when available

Always sync PTF coverletters when doing a PTF sync with ARE Use Case: When doing a PTF sync from an image catalog with PTF iso images PTF coverletters are transferred to the target system from the CS. When instead of an image catalog PTF savefiles...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

ScreenDesigner support all keywords that have visual impact such as CHGINPDFT in design view

Some keywords have visual effect that is not reflect in the design or preview tabs. One example is CHGINPDFT.This confuses developers because they think they have not set the appropriate keywords and they loose time.Development is not accepting it...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

BRMS Track changed objects since last save VS scan

We have a customer with 18 million objects in the IFS- the customer does incremental saves for the IFS and they still run 30+ hours on LTO6. On a daily basis- very little data changes, but the system scans the entire IFS to find the objects that a...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 6 Not under consideration