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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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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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PowerVC - zone update to CISCO switches

Customer would like zone updates to cisco switches to be staggered and delayed.PowerVC when creating zones for storage will force a zone update, On Cisco switches that may cause an outage to all storage impacted by the zone.The customer has redund...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

SNMP Storage OID 32bit limitation on greater than 16 TB

SNMP OID not showing correct information due to limitation of being a 32bit integer var.hrStorageSize.15 = 421265408
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Retain (with option to print) results in Remote Search view

Retain search results (Remote Search view), even after the view or the software is closed. Also, allow these saved search results to be shared between developers. Presently, when doing numerous searches (e.g., via "Find String . . ." [FNDSTRPDM] f...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Netboot Disk selection tool

We have disk system over 2000.When perform network booting.Many time spend for disk selection.When Disk selection menu, 6-next,6-next......We want keyword search tool .
about 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC support for Brocade LSAN (FC routing)

Within IKEA cloud (and automation) track there are systems (VM´s) that use storage from 2 different sites (different clusters). Today LSAN is configured for achieving this.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Command definition compiles create EVENT file

There should be a *EVENT file created during command compiles. Use Case: All my i OS programs are command driven, just like IBM.
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

ACS???????????????????????

ACSのSQL Scriptsにてデータ表示後、コピーをするとハング状態となる。IBM開発側にて再現しており、「ACSを利用する際に、サイズの大きなファイルから一度にすべてのデータを要求するとディスクアクセスが大量発生するため、ユーザーインターフェースがロックされってしまうのは仕様です。将来的には仕様変更が検討されていますが、現時点では予定などは目処が立っておりません。」との回答あり。
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

HMC Enhanced UI lacking client slot ID option for vSCSI adapters

The enhanced UI in the HMC is lacking the ability to choose a slot id for the client vSCSI adapter and forces the next available slot id on the client LPAR which may vary from LPAR to LPAR. This is not the case with the classic UI where you have f...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS Task Pane Should be Customizeable

In the Java Version of ACS (Currently at v 1.1.7.0) the Task pains on the leftside of the main ACSLaunch window are not configurable nor are they moveable. This means they are laid out the way the last programmer who worked on it felt it was conve...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Manual builder needed for i Projects

Currently i Projects offers three builder options, a CL based builder, a user-supplied command based builder and the *NONE builder. When no builder is needed for the and the *NONE builder is selected the options to push changed members to the IBM ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration