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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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AIX

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Storage space reclamation over vSCSI

AIX supports space reclamation with various storage systems over NPIV. Customers using vSCSI for good reasons also want to use this feature with storage systems especially with IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2+ and FlashSystem 7200.
about 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Live Partition update with spectrum scale filesystem

Hello, today it is not possible with AX 7.2 to install aix patches online if you have spectrum scale (gpfs) filesystems. AIX and spectrum scale are IBM Standard products, so it is not understandable for customer .
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Modern browser for AIX which supports at least TLS 1.2

The latest available Firefox for AIX is version 3.6.25 which enables SSL 3 by default, and TLS 1.0 Customers have requested a modern browser on AIXthat can, among other things:- Use TLS1.2- View IBM's Fix Central- View IBM's Knowledge Center IBM s...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

Enhance lsmpio showing both storages in an policy-based HA environment (mirroring)

In an AIX VM using a FS9500 environment with policy-based HA it is only possible with lsmpio to see the primary storage node of the mirroring relation in the FS9500. It should be possible to see both storages of that relation. This is especially i...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add Linux systemd support to AIX

The Linux distributions moved away from using inittab. All new linux distributions and applications are using systemd now.
over 2 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

RBAC Domain assignment for a file gets lost when cp is used.

When using Domain RBAC to implement access restrictions to files based on classifications. i.e. CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET as a domain name. However, when a domain SECRET is assigned to a file in directory /secret/ and someone with access to the file ...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

Port OpenSCAP to AIX

Please port OpenSCAP to AIX either native or RPM package format will do. https://www.open-scap.org/
about 8 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

nconnect NFS mount option for AIX

It will be useful to have nconnect NFS mount option like in Linux world available in AIX also to improve performance of NFS mounts for WAN connections and / or for connections with limited bandwith per one tcp session. In AIX NFS mount uses only o...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
8 months ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

Add NFS v4.1 and NFS v4.2 support for mounting on clients

There are supposedly security and stability enhancements in NFSv4.1 and v4.2. Also, the IBM product MQ suggests using NFSv4.1
over 1 year ago in AIX 3 Future consideration