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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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Fix or add a working API to list files in COS

Currently, the Qicc_list_files_in_cloud API in the 5733ICC product (IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i) is not working, and there is no substitute for a list of files uploaded and/or present in COS. It is extremely important to be able to verify wh...
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud Submitted

Bypass the target port checks for Inactive Live Partition Mobility

bring the feature presented in Live Partition Mobility (LPM): Bypass NPIV target port level validation to AIX, for inactive LPAR at least on a short term basis.
about 1 month ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement

IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement Title: Automated or Centralized Deconfiguration of SR-IOV Virtual Functions (VFs) Across LPARs for Adapter Maintenance Description: In environments using SR-IOV with vNICs and re...
6 months ago in PowerVM Submitted

Have more, if not all, of iACS populate CLIENT_PROGRAMID

In an attempt to discover what versions of IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS) are currently attached to our systems I am running the following SQL: SELECT ji.job_name, GJI.V_AUTHORIZATION_NAME, GJI.V_CLIENT_PROGRAMID, GJI.V_CLIENT_IP_ADDRESS FRO...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

PowerVC Appliance - add support for scheduling tasks

Clients using the PowerVC Appliance would like to be able to schedule tasks as would be done on an open OS system via Cron, PowerVC appliance 2.3.2 has no scheduler
about 2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

add pattern matching to RPG

It would be nice to have a terse and compact way to assign a value to a variable based on one or multiple conditions. Many languages have a form of matching pattern to accomplish this. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=expressions-case-exp...
23 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

RSEAPI - operation DELETE api/v1/admin/sessions

Hello, Is it possible to add the host and token as optional parameters, just like the username?All parameters could be combined.These new parameters would have a default value of *ALL. These additions would allow, for example : removing all connec...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Automatically truncate Integrated WebService input payload if it is more than the defined length in the Rest service contract.

we have observed that the IWS REST service fails when an input payload parameter exceeds the defined length. Is there a way to configure IWS to automatically truncate the input if it exceeds the specified length? The request is to truncate the par...
17 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Consolidate target‑level and LUN‑level validation to reduce validation disruption due to fabric limitations

Live Partition Mobility (LPM) validation currently executes separate target‑level and LUN‑level validation paths per default, resulting in multiple Fibre Channel fabric login events per LPM validation. In large NPIV environments, this behavior can...
about 1 month ago in PowerVM Submitted

Enable PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM) for DB2 HA clusters using Pacemaker and SBD watchdogs on RHEL9 Power systems

Currently, IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM) fails for RHEL9 DB2 HA clusters that use Pacemaker with SBD (STONITH Block Device), due to the pseries_wdt watchdog driver preventing partition suspend.This limitation directly impacts IBM DB2 H...
7 months ago in PowerVM Submitted