IBM Power Ideas Portal


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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    Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

    Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
    9 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Future consideration

    lsdev should show the correct storage type

    lsdev shows for an FS9500 storage (and also other newer storages) still "IBM 2076 FC disk", which is very old and missleading. The command should give the correct type, for example 4666 for an FS9500 storage. $ lsdev -Cl hdisk420hdisk420 Available...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    Add IncludeGroup for use RSEAPI

    Recently, to use the RSE API, we have the options "adminUsers", "includeUsers", or "excludeUsers". When we want to add a new user, we need to modify the file located at /QIBM/UserData/OS/RSEAPI/rseapi.properties, and then restart the ADMIN5 server...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

    Allow reuse of QSQSVR prestart jobs for multithread jobs running embedded SQL in server mode

    Please allow release of QSQSVR prestart jobs back to the pool upon thread termination for embedded SQL (SQLRPGLE) running in server mode in multithread capable jobs. Currently, when a multithreaded job running in server mode (set by QWTCHGJB) spaw...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Improve reorganize while active

    the reorganize while active mechaniism is a very interesting mechanism and allows you to reorganize files under journal allowing you to clean up many deleted records without closing applications and services. However, the mechanism does not allow...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    make simplified remote restart fully disaster recovery capable

    When employing simplified remote restart, one requisite to restart an LPAR on another machine is that all SAN paths and targets (e.g. LUNs) have to be available on target VIO servers. During a disaster recovery scenario, this is not the case; in a...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    PowerVC container based (docker/podman)

    To simplify the installation and update procedure and get more stability. This also reduces the dependencies on the operating system/repos.
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    watsonx and Openshift.ai support on Power. Early Acces Program (Beta testing)

    We do have a potentially big oppy in Spain in INDRA. They work for Minitry of Defense and they are starting a project to deal with RADAR imaging where they want to use AI but, given the confidential characteristics of the data, they are promoting ...
    over 1 year ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) 3 Future consideration

    Project names should be more clearly visible and sorted

    When you start PowerVC it asks you which project you wish to work on (if you have access to more than one I guess). It displays prominently across the top of the screen. If you want to change the project you are working on, you get a short list of...
    6 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Improve the Reconnect process for RDi

    When working remotely for the past 2 years I connect to our corporate network via VPN prior to opening RDi. Everything works fine in RDi until my VPN connection drops. At this point RDi still shows as connected. When I reconnect the VPN and try to...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

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