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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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Integrated File System tool: Allow us to change the size of the font

In ACS's Integrated File System tool the font is too small. I want to be able, like I can in other ACS tools, adjust the size of the font.
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Under review

Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

Certificate lifespan is drastically shortening. and certificates are fundamental in todays security. Lifespan will be 47 days in 2029. IBM i needs a robust way to automate the renewal of publicly signed certificates.
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

Add support for USB devices >256GB

As LTO Drives and media getting larger (and more expensive) it is not longer suitable for a daily backup on small environments. So a lot of customers use USB thumbdrives, but these are only supported up to 256GB Please add support (and test) for l...
3 months ago in IBM i / Hardware 6 Under review

Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

mksysb for RHEL, ease of management and DR with same process as for AIX

After years of using AIX one gets used to work with an operating system that really support you in regards of DR. We can use mksysb, alt_disk_”functions” and LU for AIX but is more limited in using Linux features. We would like to see how mksysb c...
18 days ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Under review

Removal of 4-Core Limit for IBM-i VMs on the S1022

Description: As a forward-thinking organization leveraging IBM-i on the S1022 server, we are consistently seeking ways to enhance performance, optimize resource utilization, and meet our increasing workload demands. In light of this, we submit the...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 10 Under review

possibility to assign the certificate from DCM console for Navigator and DCM web portal

Today we have to manage or assign the certifiate outside DCM console especially while renewing new certificate we have to manage all tcp enabled ssl service in DCM console and for navigator and DCM outside DCM console like web admin console and na...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Under review

Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
7 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

Enhance maximum variable length to 4GB

More and more we need to handle data with sizes over 16MB ie XML, so it would help a lot if it was possible to handle the maximum amount of data in a variable. Therefore I would like to have the possibility to define variables in RPG with a size o...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

Extend the SAVxxx and RSTxxx commands to allow an IFS file as the SAVF file.

The SAV and RST commands allow the value *SAVF for the device parameter, but the save file itself must necessarily refer to a file located in a library. Of course, it’s possible to use the CPYTOSTMF and CPYFRMSTMF commands to achieve the desired r...
4 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review