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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Enable BSC protocol for asynchronous communication adapter

In Japan, BSC protocol communication is still used by many customers. Therefore, many customers of Power Systems IBM i need synchronous communication adapter. The synchronous communication adapter #EN13 becomes end-of-marketing. The customer's con...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 4 Not under consideration

Power Advanced Toolchain support

Advanced Toolchain is unsupported, therefore not desirable/usable for Banking. Add support (similar to IBM Elite support, to IBM PowerAI Enterprise, which is already a package heavily based on services of open sourcehttps://developer.ibm.com/linux...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 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...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Allowed to access python on HMC through the CLI

Allow access to python on the HMC. We would like to use our ansible server to automate certain tasks on the HMC. From the CLI it looks like I cant access it when I run python --version. It seems to be out there ls -l /bin/python*lrwxrwxrwx 1 root ...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

Cleanup after a remote restart of a VM when a system profiles are restored from backups

Assume that a running system was failed completely loosing its profiles and running VMs were remote restarted by PowerVC to other running systems. In above case, after the failure loosing profiles and VMs are relocated auotmatically. When the fail...
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.
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Add Searchlight in PowerVC

Searchlight dramatically improves the user focused search capabilities and performance on behalf of various OpenStack cloud services. Searchlight was originally developed and released in the Kilo release of Glance. It would be a great improvement ...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

i Access for Windows for Vietnamese Language

Currently, i Access for Window is only allowed to input Vietnamese language using the Windows keyboard setting which is VNI method. This method is not commonly used in Vietnam as it used combination of numeric and symbol for Vietnamese accent. It ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Allow LPAR ID modification during Novalink Recovery partition data process

The current Novalink recovery process has been created to accommodate the recovery of a physical server from a Novalink only managed deployment and greenfield clients who are fine with not implementing internal standards. This recovery process is ...
over 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future 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 ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

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