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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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IOSTAT-F Truncated Output

Hi IBM. The output from iostat -F is truncated at 20 characters for file-systems names. This can make it almost impossible to confirm the exact file-system that the IO is going to, when you have many mounts that all start with a similar name. E.g....
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Need Netapp Storage for IBM Powervc

We purchased new P series servers and wanted to use our existing Netapp storage, and powervc was one great tool we were looking forward to working with and it's not even supportedon Netapp platform. If we cant soon use Netapp then we have to recon...
almost 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

Need a option in lparstat/vmstat command to get virtual cpu utilization in AIX

currently none of the AIX command show %physc or %VP usage. only nmon have it but not available to run a command. please add the %vp to lparstat or vmstat command similar to %ec.
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

AIX-based mechanism to query and set the system power mode and any related attributes

Request an AIX mechanism (such as a C API or script) to query and alter the system power mode. Currently, the only interface provided is via the ASMI, limiting accessibility to manual interaction through a Web browser, customer-supplied integratio...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

System i native support for MS-SQL Server Connection

Native Support for System i to connect to MS-SQL Server using the remote Database entry (ADDRDBDIRE).Connection should support SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT to provide a possibility for data exchange.There are exists a lot of open souce tools which works...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

Test: Windows support on PowerVM :-)

If IBM can support Windows running on top of PowerVM I'd gladly replace all my x86 hardware!
almost 8 years ago in PowerVM 2 Not under consideration

IBM i Access for Windows Support for Windows 10

We want IBM i Access for Windows to continue using with Windows 10. IBM Client Solutions is not an option because JAVA based. Use Case: We want to install any Java-based software on the clients. Moreover, we want to use the Operations navigator wi...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

For fully free RPG provide support for program described printer files

Provide support for program described printer files. Since in fully free RPG there is no support for output specification, please change the WRITE op-code to direct coutput to non external described printer files. The PRTCTL keyword for line spaci...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

Navigator: Allow URL's to specific areas

I would like to be able to send links to our users like:https://myibmi:2005/ibm/console/SendaMessagehttps://myibmi:2005/ibm/console/Messageshttps://myibmi:2005/ibm/console/PrinterOutputhttps://myibmi:2005/ibm/console/Printershttps://myibmi:2005/ib...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

RDi 9.5.0.3: Source search path for the code coverage cannot be changed

We use the application Rational Developer for i (RDi), ver: 9.5.0.3. We have the source and the object on two different IBMi server. In this case, the feature code coverage doesn't work. I found out, the source search path for the code coverage ca...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration