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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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Granular API Token Management in CMC

The current IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) API token system provides limited control over access permissions. We propose enhancing the token management capabilities to provide greater flexibility and security: Multiple API Tokens: Allow users ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Retrieving Events/Alerts in CMC from API

Currently, the IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) provides notifications of events and alerts only via email and SMS. This limits the ability to integrate CMC with other monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems. We propose adding a RESTful AP...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

PowerVC Host / Virtual Machine / Storage / Volumes Complete Inventory

This is help full for internal Auditing and tracking...
25 days ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

Enable per-UID network routing like iptables

In most if not all Linux distributions, iptables is used for network routing. IPTables enables routing per UID like so: sudo ip rule add uidrange 1001-1001 table user_wlp sudo ip route add default via 192.168.53.14 table user_wlp This will set the...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Sending Apache Server access and error logs to a Syslog Server

Enable sending of Apache Server access and error logs on IBM i to a local or remote Syslog Server
25 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Add support for Java 21 to IBM i

Java 21 is needed so we can use new features also on IBM i. It will enable IBM i community to run applications that requires java 21. Java 21 (IBM Semeru) is already available for other platforms.
10 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Submitted

Disable feature which will power off a vm without user action

PowerVC design is to force a power off of a vm without operator action if PowerVC determines the state of the vm is not in agreement with it's internal known state openstack used to provide sync_power_state_interval to disable this feature by sett...
26 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Relaxe the restriction for the QUALIFIED keyword use on LIKEDS strucctures.

When coding RPG IV, I use Templates and the LIKEDS keyword, and also use non-Template data structures with the LIKEDS keyword. RPG IV muscle memory instinctively has me writing: DCL-DS myStruct Qualified LIKEDS(struct_tmpl) Inz(*LIKEDS); The probl...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
6 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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