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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Add a new category under IBM Navigator for i, with the ability to plug in user-defined SQL for result sets and charts, similar to way system info is presented.

This idea would allow system admins to build up a list and provide useful site-specific, SQL inquiry/review capability for their users, via custom SQL queries. Whether these are configured in the IFS or some other place, is fine. But it should be ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Creating User Profiles with SSH-Only Access on IBM i

When designing and creating a user profile on a system like IBM i, it's possible to define with considerable precision which resources and environments will be available to that user. A common need in enterprise environments is to allow access onl...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Enhance Volume Group "AUTO SYNC" feature to bring a temporarily missing (and now available again) disk back to active and start automatic sync

Dear IBM Ideas team, "chvg" command option "-s" offers the posibility to start "automatic synchronization of stale partitions" for mirrored logical volumes.Apparently the code does not provide to bring a missing disk back to active, so the automat...
about 2 months ago in AIX Submitted

ICC product should provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has failed

Hello, As per case TS019399743: "...I was working with development teams and sincerely apologize for delayed response. BRMS development team has checked and confirmed that ICC product do not provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has...
6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud Submitted

Add downloaded to IMGCLG to PTF status when using QPZRTVFX

When retrieving PTF status it does not say if the PTF has been downloaded to an IMGCLG even though the SNDPTFORD is used to order and download the PTF. When comparing a lits of PTF's that are required for CVE coverage you cannot see if the PTF has...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service Submitted

AIX Toolbox needs feature parity with RHEL.

By not having a fat FOSS layer, IBM is self-selecting AIX out of consideration for the vast majority of ISVs out there. Note that I have nothing but praise and respect for the team that is keeping the Toolbox alive on a shoestring budget, but they...
4 months ago in AIX Submitted

lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

PEP2.0 should allow three POWER generations in 1 pool

PEP2.0 currently supports TWO generations of Power hardware (like Power8+9, Power9+10 of Power10+11) in one pool. Suppose you currently have E950 and E1050 in one Enterprise Pool, adding an E1150 to the same pool is not possible. If you want to ke...
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

“Global Debt Intelligence & Autonomous Financial Optimization Network (G-DIAFON)

“Global Debt Intelligence & Autonomous Financial Optimization Network (G-DIAFON)” 💡 Core Idea (Realistic Version) A distributed AI system that: Tracks public debt structures across nations in real timeDetects inefficiencies, fraud, redundant s...