IBM Power Ideas Portal


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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    Allow IBM i connection to Fix Central to download PTF iso image files to also use port 990 as well as port 21 for secure downloads.

    My company has threatened to disallow a connection to Fix Central using port 21 even if it is secure. This would prohibit the ability to download iso image files from Fix Central to the IBM i. Right now if the command FTP <fix-central> SECCN...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under consideration

    "EXTEND TABLE" SQL statement

    To day there are no elegant way to map OO class extensions direct in Db2. So it would be appreciated that Db2 invent a new statement that Extend a table as a new table with extra columns. In effect - Db2 makes a internal maintained one-to-one rela...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    PowerVC installation package enhancement

    Include all the required software for powervc to the installation package itself. This way customer will not be dependent to RedHat subscription. Subscription should only for the operating systems related and not IBM product, like PowerVC.
    about 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

    PowerVC and storage V7000

    PowerVC is connected to a storage box, here it is an IBM Storwize V7000.A Pool of disks of this storage is used by PowerVC. Say with others words, PowerVC is connected to the Storwize V7000 and uses this storage space.
    about 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

    For queries requiring table scan agsinst of large, 100,000,000+ row tables, split the query into multiple threads based on a percentage of total table pages

    WHY: Improved one off query performance against large, 100,000,000+ row tables. WHO: My customer has transaction log tables that can record millions of transactions per day. Peaking just above 58 million per month in the last 6 months. Maintaining...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

    BRMS Console Monitor

    To Have the BRMS Console Monitor autostart in QCTL whenever we IPL. This would eliminate the need to log into console to start Console Monitor after an IPL. Use Case: It would be an autostart job in the controlling subsystem QCTL. Currently the on...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

    Allow OVRPRTF command to specify TOSTMF('/dev/null') to suppress STDOUT from C based objects

    Currently the OVRPRTF command will not allow overrides to stream files that already exist. We have been asked by a customer to suppress the creation of spooled files for certain batch tasks. Currently we issue the OVRPRTF command to route this to ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

    Integrated File System option in ACS keeps asking for password for multiple operation

    If ACS is set to ask for user and password each app opening (say to open different IFS ACS windows using different users), it keeps asking for password even for EACH sub-operation, like "download". Recreate: open ACS IFS using ask for user and pas...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Encryption Hardware Acceleration for GNUTLS/libnettle

    The Samba project has away from home grown encryption and openssl to GNUTLS/libnettle in 2019 see https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2019/10/02/samba-and-gnutls/ With gnutls/libnettle in its current state, we can expect substantial performance penalty on...
    almost 3 years ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Planned for future release

    PowerVC Administrative Projects

    Please give us the ability to limit the verbosity of messages in certain projects. Give us the ability to mark a project as administrative on non-administrative. For example some projects used by end users don't need to see messages related to inf...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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