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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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AIX I/O error recovery ; Enhance EEH to RoCE adapter

System: Product Power Systems , FPGAActor: enhance EEH to RoCE adapter Product FPGA on Power Systems is a commonly used expansion Unit that provides monitoring and error management of PICe adapter. Description: Customer uses SIView on Power System...
over 5 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

HMC simple linux diag-commands for rsh-shell

make simple Linux diag-commands like "top", "lscpu", "lsmem", "mvcli" etc. available on HMC-rsh-shell.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Require QIBM_DB_SECADM or similar to perform set session authorization

Today any user with *ALLOBJ is able to do the equivalent to sudo in Linux without the need of any password to become another user using set session authorization via SQL. Any user with *ALLOBJ can become Qsecofr by open strsql and run: “Set sessio...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

Show SQL referenced items in Outline View

Tables, views, and columns referenced in embedded SQL do not appear in the Outline View. Use Case: **free ctl-opt dftactgrp(*no); dcl-s table char(10);dcl-s lib char(10);dcl-s text char(50); // table exists on every systemexec sql declare pgmr_own...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

IBM Access Client Solution as an .apk

It would be nice, to have the possibility to access the system from a portable device f.e. in the warehouse or while in front of the rack for quick maintenance or just to check something.
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

extend Support for HMC classic View after Release 8.8.6

Wir benutzen den classic View auf der HMC in der Version 8.8.6. Beim letzten Update ist aufgefallen das die Version 8.8.6 die letzte Version sein soll, die den classic View unterstützt.Mit dem enhanced+ View haben wir erhebliche Performance Proble...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

iACS - HOD

we have done a network installation of iACS inside our IFS with restricted access for functions like "run SQL-Scripts". Our Users can only see the 5250-Emulator and their SPLFs. We have entered the restrictions inside the AcsConfig.properties-file...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS IFS Explorer - TreeSize-like functionality.

I can't seem to find a good and intuitive tool to get an overview of the IFS. It would be nice to able to look at eg. the root folder and see for each folder how many files/folders/bytes are in that folder.Something like TreeSize for Windows' expl...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

BRMS to ignore some non-critical errors when saving spools

BRMS does stop save procedure in some cases of non-cricital errors like saving QUSRSYS with some spool files damaged. It would be preferrable to have BRMS by default ignore the errors, post more detailed information into DSPLOGBRM and continue sav...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 Not under consideration

5733-ICC and BRMS - Use just one Image Catalog, instead of one per image

Sometimes BRMS maintenance can't remove old random tape image catalogs created when saving to the cloud, and we need to run the tool one more time or remove manually to fix the issue. If using just 1 image catalog (even with a fixed name) we can e...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration