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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    The "BIOS battery extender" enables simple BIOS battery changes in a computer without stopping the production line. (DE-Patent: AZ: 10 2023 003 285.9)

    Problem Inside computers is a BIOS battery. The BIOS battery ensures that when the computer is turned off, the BIOS configuration settings are not lost. Since the batteries lose charge over time, they must be replaced regularly. A state-of-the-art...
    9 days ago in IBM i / Hardware 0 Submitted

    Prohibit changing the activation group name of a program

    If you create a program using the CRTPGM command, you have an ALWUPD() parameter. Setting it to *NO prevents you from changing the activation group name using the UPDPGM ... ACTGRP(new group) command. When you create a program using the CRTBNDXXX ...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Keyword / Compiler Option to warn if a procedure uses global variable

    New Control Spec Keyword / Compiler Option to warn if a calculation in procedure uses a global variable Keyword: PROCGLBVAR with options *ALLOW *WARN *ERROR *allow - no compiler message if a calculation in a procedure references a global variable ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    PEP2.0 should allow three POWER generations in 1 pool

    PEP2.0 currently supports TWO generations of Power hardware (like Power8+9, Power9+10 of Power10+11) in one pool. Suppose you currently have E950 and E1050 in one Enterprise Pool, adding an E1150 to the same pool is not possible. If you want to ke...
    4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    HMC V11 should support download the zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI

    HMC V11 now supports collecting service data like VIOS snap, HMC debug and is able to automatically upload to an IBM case.If the client do not allow automatic upload or wants to collect data later, after the case has been created, then it would be...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    When Navigator is configured to support TLS, unsecure http requests to port 2001 should redirect to Navigator over https port 2003

    Some customers configure TLS but do not disable the nonsecure ports "just in case". They use the https ports, but the nonsecure interface is still running. When running in this configuration, a request to http://servername:2001/ will redirect to t...
    27 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

    The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
    11 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

    ACS IFS - resolve correctly "well known locations" to the real physical folder

    Talking about Windows, ACS seems to not respect the client setting, assuming that the position of well known folders is fixed in a system. For example in ACS IFS browser, Edit-Preferences-Download Location is set to "Downloads folder". ACS assumes...
    11 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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