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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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API for getting thread id & thread name such as in command PRTJVMJOB *thread

For JVM users and ERP (such as M3 or others), the thread id inside JVM could be internal to software or dedicated tool. In this case, to investigate job performance such as idoctor or job watcher it is impossible to search a job or tasks with the ...
14 days ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

TS2290 and 7226-1U3 (LTO-9) SAS HH Tape drive support AIX & VIOS

LTO-9 SAS HH connected 7226 tape drives are not supported in AIX / VIOS partitions and may log VRSAS_FABRIC_ERROR, SRN2D11-4101 Please resolve this issue as soon as possible.SSIC is supported, but power is not.We would like to provide a SAS card t...
15 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
15 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

OKD builds as free version of OpenShift for Power

More and more IBM customers are unhappy with being forced to OpenShift by IBM. There are multiple requests for free versions of Kubernetes platforms for ppc64le besides OpenShift to experiment with it. OKD is the free version of OpenShift, but not...
17 days ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 0 Submitted

Allow unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks associated with a virtual machine at a secondary (disaster recovery) site to be omitted during the discover/verify process, enabling disaster recovery operations.

Allowing unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks for a DB2 virtual machine using a DB2 tie-breaker disk at a disaster recovery (DR) site will enable us to fully automate the failover from the primary to the secondary site.
18 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

QMGTOOLS Option to Compare/Order Cross Reference PTFs Before an OS Upgrade

In QMGTOOLS option 24, PTF menu, can IBM add an option to compare/order cross-reference PTFs when planning for an OS upgrade, like from 7.4 to 7.5?
18 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

PowerVC Host / Virtual Machine / Storage / Volumes Complete Inventory

This is help full for internal Auditing and tracking...
19 days ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

Enable a description to be added to system reply list entries

When you use the wrkrpyle command you see a list of Message ID's which is quite meaningless. I recently was investigating at a new site where there were a lot of reply list messages and no site documentation so I worked through the messages to det...
19 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Sending Apache Server access and error logs to a Syslog Server

Enable sending of Apache Server access and error logs on IBM i to a local or remote Syslog Server
19 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Start and stop the Syslog server on the IBM i

Add the ability to start and stop the Syslog server on IBM i to the STRTCPSVR and ENDTCPSVR commands.Similarly, in Navigator for IBM i
19 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted