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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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Snap with anonymized data

For security reasons, it is becoming more and more complicated for the customer to provide SNAP to support teams when needed.Mainly because these files contain IP addresses, hostnames and binary files.In fact, in companies, customers have modified...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Bring back and improve Snippets in RDi

The Snippets view has been removed from RDi since version 9.8. Also the export, export for automatic distribution and import of Snippets was removed. Please bring back Snippets and improve them by adding "light scripting" or at least conditional c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Selection the length of server power cables

The #6577 is described on the below manual that manufacturing select length when a rack is configured in the factory.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=pr-supported-power-cordsCustomer said that in spite of the connection for servers to PDU...
about 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 0 Under review

PDU cables shorter than 4.3M

The PDU cable (ex. #6654) is currently only length of 4.3M.The PDU cable is too long and become a big cable roll under the rack. And these big cable rolls are as many as PDUs.Please provide PDU cables shorter than 4.3M including the perspective of...
about 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 0 Under review

AIX: OpenSSH support for authenticating with FIDO2 credentials.

Having OpenSSH at least in version 8.2 and getting support for ed25519-sk type of keys would be a gain.
about 2 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

Emulex Dirver Support for the Emulex SAN Manager

Support for Congestion Management, Visibility of Transceiver Data and Inventory of all Power Emulex HBAs. Customers can do autonomous Congestions Managment who can help them mitigate Performance Problems. With the Visibility of Transceiver Data th...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Under review

Ability to assign/reassign/remove VMs from Shared Processor Pools

Currently in PowerVC the only way that a Shared Processor Pool can be set for a VM is by using a compute template specifying the pool at deployment time. Any change of a VM to a different pool post deploy needs to be performed using the HMC. Havin...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Add Source Change Mark column to Source Physical Files to promote move to **FREE and preserve historical metadata

With the addition of **FREE support for RPGLE, the prior use of columns 1 - 5 goes away. However, the vast majority of developers use these 5 characters to put a 'change mark' to tie source code changes back to a project or reason for the change. ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

ACS Printer Output - add options under Set Filter

My idea is to add additional date and time filter options in Access Client Solutions Printer Output Set Filter screen. Currently the options under Date and Time Created include "All date and times" and "To date and time". The All filter takes long...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Allow drag and drop for IFS interface in iACS

Allow drag and drop of files in the Integrated File System (IFS) interface within iACS. This would be similar to what is available with the Navigator for i functionality within IBM i Access for Windows. Use Case: Users utilize Navigator for i to d...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration