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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Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
38 minutes ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

AIX NFS client configuration with TLS

This secures the traditional NFS traffic (that normally runs over RPC).
about 1 hour ago in AIX Submitted

Add better null support for DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN

When dealing with REST API's communicating with other platform must null handling be simpler, for both DATA-GEN and DATA-INTO. Current: This variable contains a json object with two key pairs "name" and "born". Both have the value null and are dif...
2 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Improve the startup performance of the Java VM (JVM) on IBM i

The current startup time hasn't substancially improved for JVM over the years. Some improvement, sure, but nothing impactful. Now with Clients connecting via various smart IDE's and other interfaces, JVM startup provides a negative impact to those...
about 8 hours ago in IBM i / JAVA Submitted

add CLI option to GUI-feature : "Schedule-management" jobs

setting up "Schedule-management" jobs is currently a GUI-only feature. (V11R1M1111) add a CLI functionality to this feature. and a clear logging/messaging for active or expired schedule jobs.
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Adding the option to specify a Sender address to the command SNDSMTPEMM

For years now IBM i lacking a command to specify the sender mail address in a simple manner. Yes there is an API but this is too complicated for the average IBM i developer. Would it not be very convenient if the current SNDSMTPEMM is enhanced to ...
21 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

upgrade HMC service-management-panel - dump-panel - to add IBM-support-case-no when calling-home a dump

It will ease up work with HMC-GUI to have an option to add the IBM-Support-case-no. to a dump-file when choosing " call-home dump ". This will give IBM-ECUREP the feature to right place the uploaded dump-file to the correct IBM-support-case unless...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

REST API Certificate Automation

This is useful to customers looking to automate the renewals for HMC certificates.
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Add option in "installios" for VIOS maintenance boot

Booting to maintenance mode becomes critical in situations where the VIOS is unable to boot, and the process requires using an image from a NIM server or physical media which becomes an obstacle to recovery and often ends up reinstalling the VIOS ...
19 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Automate add or update of Certificate instead of manual process in DCM

A new process is being implemented reducing the number of days a certificate will be valid. Apple, Google and others are already implementing this. https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days In 2 week...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

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