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.

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    One location for software downloads

    IBM AIX is a great product. But most users install software on their machines that is supplied by IBM but does not come with AIX. Examples are sudo, openssh, java, lsof, Python3, perl etc. Many of which are from the AIX Web Download Pack (https://...
    5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Have possibility to download PTFs via https

    Hello, in our company we are forbidden to use java web start as it was marked as vulnerability and FTP connection is being slowly banned out as well. Would there be option (same as for fixes for other IBM products like storage etc) to use https fo...
    5 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    When Navigator is configured to support TLS, unsecure http requests to port 2001 should redirect to Navigator over https port 2003

    Some customers configure TLS but do not disable the nonsecure ports "just in case". They use the https ports, but the nonsecure interface is still running. When running in this configuration, a request to http://servername:2001/ will redirect to t...
    2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    IBM websites remember you but ask MFA repeatedly

    I am an IBM champion, also Authorized Program Administrator and Primary Relationship Contact and I also work as engineer with the Support portal, FixCentral etc. That means I login to IBM websites a lot. Luckily most IBM sites I use now use a sing...
    5 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

    VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
    over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Notification Details- Call Home

    We would like to explore the possibility to get all the details available on this notification such as: Host name of the device, serial number, model, type. with that we can have more information and details at the time that the call home event is...
    3 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add ability to remove closed serviceable events

    In the latest HMC code base there are commands to list, change and make servicable events but no command we could find to remove serviceable events. Please add CLI command and HMC command to do this. Thanks, Scott Gruber
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

    "Power Pi" - a low-cost Power-based single-board computer

    The popularity of Linux was and still is fused by its easy and cheap availability. Every student or hobbyist can setup his/her own server using a "Raspberry Pi" for under 100$. A similar offering on the basis of low-cost Power hardware could do th...
    3 months ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted

    New command CPYMSGD

    The command CPYMSGD shold copy a message description with all attributes such as message data fields, formatting information (&N, &P, &B) and reply attributes.
    5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Add support for golang on power i

    We run node servers built from typescript projects on power i. Typescript has recently announced they will be porting over their transpiler to golang https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/ Angular has already switched to...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

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