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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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IBM PowerSC should provide option to do selective apply and undo rules from a compliance profile

The IBM PowerSC compliance automation feature is used to apply hardening rules. Currently the way it works is - we create a security profile and apply the complete profile on the LPAR. There is no way to selectively apply only few rules from the p...
2 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Script to change signed certificates on PowerSC MFA server.

It will be easy and mutliple step executions could be avoided providing a comprehensive way to change the CA signed certificates on MFA servers. We should be just able to provide the .pem certicate file to the script and the script should then con...
5 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

Set KBDTYPE for Console with CCSID1148

We had a long case TS014934868 because after IPL our Console had the wrong KBDTYPE set. We have CCSID 1148 on the System and SGI Keyboards. After the IPL the Console Keyboard was set to "USB". This case went through many instances and at the end t...
16 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

I would like to change the default value for the SQL command DROP COLUMN from CASCADE to RESTRICT.

HelloI would like to change the default value for the SQL command DROP COLUMN from CASCADE to RESTRICT. As far as I know, this is not possible. The problem is that I usually enter the DROP COLUMN command as an SQL script in the ACS.And I often don...
16 days ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

QSHELL support CCSID 1377

Confirm with Lab team, based on link below, CCSID 1377 is not supported: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=qshell-national-language-support-nls-considerations I test CCSID 935 1388 937, all works, just like above link describe. However, 1377...
17 days ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

Expanding SQL to view certificates assigned to IBM i applications

In a previous release, IBM i SQL enhancements made it possible to view certificate info from the qsys2.certificate_info table using an SQL statement. The enhancement I am suggesting would take the next step and make it possible to view which certi...
3 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

SSO integration with Active Directory - Save and restore option

A lot of companys are asking for SSO integration with Active Directory. Adding identifiers with Navigator for I is not easy when you have 600 users... The option "new identifiers based from" could be usefull if we could add the kerberos regystry i...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

add email importance to the SNDSMTPEMM command

There is currently no way to flag an email with high importance in the IBMi SNDSMTPEMM command. The old SNDDST command had 2 additional options that are not included in SNDSMTPEMM. Content importance . . . . . . . *NORMAL *NORMAL, *LOW, *HIGH Prio...
17 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Submitted

adding python packages in ACL list

In order to demonstrate to customers that iSeries systems are usable in multiple environments, I developed in RPGLE some applications that use python packages to generate excel formats (xlsx), to read/write information to different databases or to...
18 days ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Submitted

HMC GUI Darkmode

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2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted