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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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SR-IOV with VLAN list should allow NIB

There is great potential for enhancemnet in the use of SR-IOV in failover scenarios, where the control within each LPAR is realized by using an Etherchannel over two physical adapters. It's a pity, but nowadays such a failover scenario is only pos...
about 9 years ago in PowerVM 3 Not under consideration

Enhance 'Run Cycle Preview' in Workload Automation

Need new feature on 'Run Cycle Preview' tab for Workload AutomationCurrently 'Run Cycle Preview' tab shows on which days the entire job stream runs, but it does not say anything if one or more jobs from job stream are excluded through 'No Operatio...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Console Connect Tool Needed for Red Hat Linux Customer Use

We have a complaint open for a client running RHEL on Power VM. They have Red Hat support and in order to do debugging the Red Hat team needs a way for the customer to capture console output via serial port connection. They provided the following ...
over 4 years ago in Parallel Environment for Power Linux / Runtime Edition 1 Not under consideration

Add WPAR names to ps output in snap tool

Please add the @ sign to the 'ps -ef' gathered in a snap (-k flag). Currently WPAR processes show up with an ID of +ID as in +0. It is more useful to see the wpar name as well as the PID inside the wpar.
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

To enable IPSec filter for network range in AIX servers

We want to allow one network segment alone like 10.1.23.0/24. How to do that with AIX IPSec, we know we can do it for individual IP's with IPSec.
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Merge tool for LPEX editor

Extend the LPEX editor to have diff and merge capabilities. Use Case: * Select two source members, and see within the editor where those two versions differ.* Apply changes from one member to another.
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Not under consideration

Can't install RDi on removable device

As a consultant in a small company, I would like to be able to install RDi on a removable device such as a USB stick so I can move it from one laptop to another for use with different clients. Use Case: As a consultant, I am often given a laptop f...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Using RDPi ability to change the source date for specific member

How to change the source date of all the records for a specific member. From green screen using PDM this can be achieved by opening the member in edit mode (opt 2) then press F13 key which opens the "Change Session Defaults" screen where under ?Se...
almost 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Not under consideration

Collapse the Find String results in RDI with Ctrl -

When doing Find String in RDI and get a lot of results, everything is expanded. In order to highlight and do another Find String on them I have to manually collapse all of them. Would be nice if Ctrl - could Collapse and Ctrl + would expand them. ...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Ability for Replacing PF/LF objects while compilation from RDP/RBD

It will be nice to having ability of replacing PF/LF objects while compilation from RDP. After going to Window ?> Preferences ?> Remote Systems ?> IBM i ?> Command Execution then checked the box for Replace object and unchecked Compile...
about 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration