IBM Power Ideas Portal


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    Trigger NPIV disk config validation for LPM from HMC GUI

    Validation of NPIV disk level configuration for LPM is described here -- (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Power%20Systems/page/NPIV%20storage%20validation%20options%20for%20Live%20Partition%20Mobility) Curren...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Power Advanced Toolchain support

    Advanced Toolchain is unsupported, therefore not desirable/usable for Banking. Add support (similar to IBM Elite support, to IBM PowerAI Enterprise, which is already a package heavily based on services of open sourcehttps://developer.ibm.com/linux...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

    Detect field length exceeding the original Array Length

    IWS can easly publish an ILE RPG program as a web service. When using "detect fields length" IWS will limit array's rows rendered in Xml or Json using a special value expressed as a Binary number. Sometimes happens (usually because of program erro...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Not under consideration

    Add Mozilla Firefox to YUM repository on IBM i

    With Firefox browser we could browse pages from IBM i Use Case: I think it's really useful on an environment with VNC or X11, so we could install some programs requiring some browsing for features selection.
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

    Add VNC Server to IBM i YUM respository

    VNC Server allows to run a remote desktop on IBM i without using Terminal Server Use Case: With VNC Server & a lightweight WM we could run some useful tools "INSIDE" our IBM i, even from a browser (VNC-JAVA), like iACS, Firefox, xTERM...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

    Add IceWM to the IBM i YUM repository

    IceWM is a lightweight Windows Manager , ideal for VNC Use Case: With IceWM+VNC we could create a small footprint environment where we could run a small desktop with iACS, Firefox and some other IBM i tools, like a Terminal Server
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

    Add Lynx Browser to YUM repository

    Please, add Lynx Browser to the IBM i YUM repository Use Case: Besides we can browse the web using Lynx, we can also convert HTML to TXT data using the "-dump" option.
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

    HTTP server not running in QHTTPSVR can not be managed by HTTP ADMIN

    With the announcement of IBM i 7.1 TR 9 and IBM i 7.2 TR 1 it is now possible to let an HTTP server run in it's own subsystem. When looking at the following link "http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020061" it appears that this new...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

    AJS Resource Dependencies lack the function of notification

    AJS Resource Dependencies lack the function of notification Use Case: A scheduled task within AJS has the option to send a notification if the task fails, completes normally, does not start within a certain time limit or based upon an error messag...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

    Clear /tmp directory

    During an IPL the directory /tmp should be cleared just like the library QRPLOBJ is cleared. Currently a command is provided to do so, but it needs to be automated in the IPL Use Case: clrtmp command needs qshell, but in restricted state that is n...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 17 Not under consideration

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