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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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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...
2 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 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...
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
11 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Add 5250 and VTxxx web console to FSP

Please, add a web-console or telnet/ssh console to the FSP for single-LPAR systems.
19 days ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted

SSL/TLS Enable IBM Fix Central Java (JNLP File) PTF Downloads

IBM Fix Central's Java (JNLP) Downloads currently use Non-secure TCP Ports 8470 thru 8476 on the Target AS400/iSeries. We're in the process of locking down Non-secure TCP Ports in favor of their corresponding SSL/TLS Ports 9470 thru 9476. We canno...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

WRKPTFGRP vs. DSPPTFGRP

The service below requires the user to be authorized to the WRKPRTGRP. But the service only list information not changing anything, so why not only require authorization to DSPPTFGRP? Improvement suggestion to IBM… SELECT CURRENT SERVER CONCAT ' i...
4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

VIOS Performance collection replacement tool

Is there a replacement tool available within VIOS for the "VIOS Performance collection"? Existing tool results are not supported on any modern browser due to security consumers. I think the tool was useful and gave me some idea of what is happenin...
20 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

chdef should be able to set queue_depth defaults for iscsi non-mpio disks.

We use ISCSI disks and do not have multi path storage available to us, so we would need to set the queue_depth for all newly created iscsi disks. However, we have to use chdev to accomplish this manually for each disk instead of just setting the d...
21 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

SIZE in -o flag of ps command

Hi, Currently the -o flag of ps command does not provide a field specifier to get the SIZE value. SIZE(v flag) The virtual size of the data section of the process (in 1 KB units). It's only possible with ps v <PID> to get the SIZE value. But...
21 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted