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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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A way to suppress DDM error from creating problem logs

Having more control over what generates an APAR library for DDM/DRDA connections would be a good idea. It would appear IBM started logging trivial things like communication errors as software problems. This is a huge issue for shops monitoring WRK...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Not under consideration

Modify cache for system commands to prevent constant downloads of commands that prompt.

I often need to use ADDLIBLE and RMVLIBLE when supporting other developers. While working remotely it has become noticeable that the ADDLIBLE and RMVLIBLE commands are never cached locally and are always downloaded. I guess one could say 1o 15 sec...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Option to disable recipient "Manage Event Notification: Email"

Currently there is no option to disable a recipient receiving email alerts in "Manage Event Notification", currently only add or delete, we need an option to disable as well.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

QNTC + SMBv2

From iseries I create excel files and write to shared windows folder for ftp access from suppliers.From iSeries I create EDI transport documents to be transmitted to customers through the EDI proprietary application. Now use SMBv1 (SMBv2 not avaia...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

Add Network Tunnelling support via VXLAN or GRE for PowerVM

PowerVM lacks of support for SDN solutions and only supports legacy vlan based layer 2 networks.Against this hypervisors under x86 supports network tunnelling technology. For example KVM supports VXLAN or GRE using OpenvSwitch. ESX supports VXLAN ...
over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

Power-Not-Responding

Our current PowerVC version is 2.0.2. We unable to create the LUNs. Unable to deploy new servers. Here -> Images - Image list - we have filled all require columns then after clicked deploy button not responding.
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

Concurrent Change of POWER Compatibility Mode

Currently the change of the processor compatibility mode requires the reboot of the related AIX Logical Partition (LPAR). Particularly during a hardware upgrade through Live Partition Mobility (LPM) to systems of the next processor generation the ...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Content assist proposals from included stream files

In LPEX editor while editing RPG source code it is not possible to get content assist entries from included stream files (even if the include path is absolute). Include the content of the included stream files in the content assist proposals. Add ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Finally leverage "the mainframe lesson" and fully exploit NUMA in POWERsystems

Why run VIO servers in the same cores, DIMMs, buses, etc. as all your real workloads? Instead of a 2-socket / 2 NUMA domain system, sell us an asymmetric 4-socket / 4 NUMA domain system where 2 of the sockets / domains are much smaller and contain...
over 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

Allow condition indicators at record level in screen designer

The SDA and Code/400 Designer products have always had the ability to set condition indicators during the design mode in order to overlay or hide fields on the display.This function is needed when there are multiple fields on a record occupying th...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration