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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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Allow option 30 & 31 within the VCP on stand alone systems (non HMC)

Allowing the options would let admins that are attached through a remote connection to verify the information found on 30 & 31 options when troubleshooting a ASMI connection problem.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Document emgr_check_ifixes selection logic and add machine-readable output with supersedence and reboot metadata

The emgr_check_ifixes command is a natural starting point for automating AIX security interim fix (iFix) management, but its documentation describes only how to invoke it — not how it selects the fixes it reports, nor the format of its output. In ...
about 2 months ago in AIX Submitted

Add the ability to process bundled certificate files in DCM

When you receive a Certificate file from a CA that has bundled Intermediate certificates in a single file you have to manually extract each certificate and install them in order to ensure the related certificates are available for verification. Th...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Need ability to specify what ports the "Verify Connection" button polls

When verifying connections, the process goes through an IBM created list of ports. Some of these ports are not valid for our environment including ports that are not even valid for our OS level. Every time the verification hits a port that does no...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Add Activation Groups Created and Programs Activated charts to PDI

I would like to see system overview charts for activation groups created as well as programs activated. Then, I would also was to see this same information by the typical groupings (subsystem, generic job, current user, pool, etc.), available via ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

PowerVC Novalink should support IPA/LDAP

We are running a significant operation with close to 40 Power servers. We use PowerVC, HMC and Novalink on (almost) every managed system to release the burden on the HMC and allow for easier system administration. Our 'management environment' has ...
about 2 months ago in PowerVM NovaLink Submitted

PowerSC should update AIX Trusted Signature Database when changing permissions

A lot of companies (banks etc.) rely on the Trusted Signature Database (TSD) in AIX, to periodically check the authenticity of installed software. Some use Trusted Execution (TE) to warn about changed executables and libraries, some take it to the...
2 months ago in PowerSC Submitted

Fix .HOD file icon associations on MacOS version of ACS

After installing the latest version of IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) on the latest version of macOS, I encountered several issues when attempting to associate .hod session files with ACS. Steps to Reproduce Install ACS using the standard mac...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

ENTERPRISE : Ajout de la possibilité de rétention des PDF dans l'IFS

Bonjour, Suite à l'installation du 5770-BR2, nous mettons actuellement en place la partie Enterprise. Nous voyons que lors d'envoi des rapports par @mail que le processus passe par une création de PDF dans l'IFS dans l'arborescence /tmp/brms//Ente...
2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Needs more information

Add a "Try Again" button to prevent synchronization issue between the Discover and Verify stages when dealing with large partition volumes

See Case TS021897288. When you go in the GUI Menu to do a Failover Rehearsal, the GUI runs 3 commands which are 'ksysmgr discover', then 'ksysmgr verify' and then 'ksysmgr move' (where the 'move' actually performs the WG failover). The problem is ...
2 months ago in VM Recovery Manager Submitted

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