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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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Add user registry and TAI to RSE APIs

Hello, Concerning the use of Remote System Explorer APIs (RSE API), we currently use basic authentication + a session. This opens up many possibilities (IFS access, SQL queries, CL command calls, etc.) to all users (within the limits of thei...
3 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

OAuth support for gmail email from IBMi

I've put this request in because Tech Support had nothing and recommended this as the course of action at this time. As of September 30, 2024, gmail is no longer allowing POP and SMTP for email. Anyone using gmail to send emails from the IBMi will...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Request for adding Allocated Processor System Thresholds to IBM CMC

The CMC currently provides the ability to set thresholds for alerting for Utilisation. Customers running multiple IBM Power systems however stand to benefit from a similar concept - Allocation thresholds, since having sufficient spare allocatable ...
3 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
22 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Add options to use different shared Filesystems for SAP Smart Assist

When using PHA SAP Smart Assist it is required to use NFS 4.It would be very helpful to have an option to use NFS 3 or ISS (GPFS) instead.
about 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

Additions for the PRUV tool

Please add the following to the PRUV tool. Report on command default changes in IBM licensed program libraries. simple example (SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL', '*CMD')) > WHERE APAR_ID = 'CHGDFT';) possible enhancements: in ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

Do not HOLD job schedule entries with CFGSTRPRSC on Source lpar

Since version 5.2 of the FSFC toolkit, the startup program is not replaced anymore with STRFSFLASH. Instead, command CFGSTRPRSC must be placed in the system's startup program. With this command. the job schedule entries are put on HOLD and afterwa...
7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

Add Filter on "Networks" tab on new VM Deployment window

When deploying new VM ; it would be great to have Search filter on Networks Tab. Currently we have +150 Networks defined on our PowerVC, so it is not very convenient to sort & scroll when trying to find the correct network :)
5 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

IBMi AJS 7.5 is linked to previous 7.2 instead of current 7.5

I have updated my comments to the URL but as there were no response or changes I created this support. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-advanced-job-scheduler-ihttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/pdf/rzasnadjspdf.pdfthis URL is linked to...
28 days ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

LPM exchanges vNIC servicing VIOS every time

We are using two power systems with vNIC virtualisation. Because we want to know which vios is using which ethernet adapter we select vio1 for servicing vNICs running on adapter cards c1 and c2 and vio2 for servicing adapter cards c8 and c9 (examp...
8 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted