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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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DB2 Max Thread / Process in AIX 7.1

Request: unlimit for connection of DB2 in AIX 7.1 Situation: Connection failure due to limit of threads per process Link: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.cmds5/ulimit.htm Detail: Customer has 300 of WAS svr of...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Update perfstats command to display information like netstat -s displays

From the client requerst.. 'We notice that perfstat for network stat is showing only few stats andwe need full stat as "netstat -s" '
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Predefining one LPM-network for LPM-validation in HMC UI

Before performaning an LPM (validation) over HMC UI, one shell be able to manually set the ONE network, over which the migration shell be performed.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

Remote restart when system is in Standby state

Simplified Remote Restart stops when power system after system dump is restarted and enters standby mode.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Is a defect

Enhancements to RBAC access control for user having ARTEX authorizations

Currently if we create a RBAC user with artexget and artexset permissions, he will be able to change any values of the system. The answer given to the above behavior is that, the RBAC user with artex permissions cannot modify the file himself. Art...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement Requested for Shared Storage Pools (SSPs)

Customer asked for an "automated way" to avoid having to manually map all of the shared storage pools (SSPs) created on production system (in Mississippi) to disaster recovery/HA system (in Arizona). Would like script or other utility provided wit...
over 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

Rational Developer for i DDS Design with REFFLD & adjustment value

When using the Rational Developer for i DDS Design tool for a display file, the Design tab does not display the field(s) correctly when using a REFFLD that also has a size adjustment. Use Case: Open an existing display file source or create a new ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

JavaFX for AIX

We need AIX support for JavaFX. Preferable in Java8.
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

php DB2 database extension and XML mismatch when Hebrew characters and numbers are used

Hebrew issues with DB2 and XML XML output the data in a reversed order.....Letters before Numbers while in the records are in the database as numbers(date) than Hebrew letters (see attachment) IBM i DB2 database record:see attachment DB2HebData.pn...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Is a defect

Where am I in?

Since the notion of position (procedure/routine) is very important implementing it using CTRL + SHIFT + O (and CTRL + F5 to remove) is not satisfactory especially because it's not available during a search (i.e. CTRL + F). A better solution would ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration