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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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Static Route Configuration support on Power 10 (eBMC) Systems

With Power 10 eBMC Systems it is no longer possible to configure "static net routes", like on Power 8 and Power 9 Systems (also with Power 10 E1080 with FSP) to attached satellite location to prim. and sec. HMC environment.That could happend with ...
1 day ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted

Make installing Visual Explain optional

When installing IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) the option is given to skip the installation of several components. Run SQL Scripts (RSS) always has Visual Explain included. I would like to see this treated similar as the System Debugger which...
about 11 hours ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

IBM PowerSC should provide an option to mark a failed compliance rule as exception in the GUI

The IBM PowerSC Compliance Automation feature allows users to run compliance check. Once the check is complete, the GUI shows the result and displays the failed rules. If at least 1 rule has failed then the compliance status of the LPAR is shown a...
1 day ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

IBM PowerSC should provide option to do selective apply and undo rules from a compliance profile

The IBM PowerSC compliance automation feature is used to apply hardening rules. Currently the way it works is - we create a security profile and apply the complete profile on the LPAR. There is no way to selectively apply only few rules from the p...
1 day ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

ACS Run SQL Scripts needs a scalable dialog box (open file)

Referring to the Run SQL Scripts application within ACS. Selecting File, Open, then PC file to open a saved SQL statement, the rendering of the Open dialog box is terrible. See attached image. One third of the dialog box is completely unused The c...
4 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Submitted

Extending more IBM i Alerts for OS system limits

I am proposing an enhancement to our current IBM i alert system to improve our system monitoring capabilities and enable proactive management of potential issues. Current IBM i alerts are limited to monitoring only 8 predefined events. https://www...
about 12 hours ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

HMC Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode

HCM should have a Patch Management: Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode. IBM should provide a easy way for Patch Management. System Firmware and Adapter microcode report in one tool (something Microcode Discovery tool...
22 days ago in Hardware Management Console 9 Submitted

CMC alerting into e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, etc. .

CMC notifies customers by e-mail. However, most customers use a central monitoring application such as Nagios, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, etc.. CMC alerts should also be sent to the customer's monitoring application. Which the IT-Operations team is mo...
7 days ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Allow "Save As" when creating a console session through ACS System Configuration

When creating a console session through ACS System Configuration, the options are "Save" or "Save as multiple sessions." We would like these sessions to be saved with the other HOD files when 5250 Session Manager is opened, aand a "Save As" functi...
about 6 hours ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Add Authority Collection detail for S/36 Procedure objects being used

When using the STRAUTCOL command to trace usage of system objects, the execution of a System/36 environment procedure (STRS36PRC) does not log the name of the procedure or the objects accessed in th procedure. Unfortunately, many shops from that e...
1 day ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted