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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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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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Ability to save console logs on a linux virtual terminal/console

Provide ability to retain/save console logs (hvc0) on a linux console terminal (vtmenu)
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Update POWERVC to add servers using AMS

PowerVC cannot manage a Linux server running that uses AMS (Active Memory Services).
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

RDp to handle special character in RPG

Unfortunately there is no solution at this time. The EBCDIC control characters used in the green screen environment have no specified visual representation in Unicode and it is left up to each operating system to decide how to render them. RD Powe...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

OpenDJ LDAP nested group support

LDAP users defined in nested groups in a OpenDJ LDAP server are not resolved. We have LDAP authentication deployed on our AIX and Linux servers. When we put a group in a group only Linux servers are able to resolve the user in the nested group. AI...
about 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

TNCPM Referrer persistent logging and OS discovery

When the VIOS IP Referrer is installed and configured to monitor new IP (detected by SVM over SEA), it inform "admin" by email of the newly detected IP which do not have an agent running. Adding the IP to the Policy Server, and visibility in the P...
almost 7 years ago in PowerSC 1 Not under consideration

AIX leap second handling

Both Linux and Solaris (for lack of better terms) are using a "stretched 59th second " that last for 2 seconds before it ticked to 00. So when compared to TAI, when the clock ticked to 00, all will be in synced. The requirement is that AIX provide...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

IPSEC Solution Function Enhancement Request

I'm CTS for KFCC and submit this request on behalf of KFCC. KFCC requested to add a funcing for ports range selection in IPSEC solution.Other OS such as Linux, Windows, Solaris support ports range selection but IBM AIX only support individual port...
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

AIX support of Drepper SHA512

Submitted on behalf of Adam Moore - UNIX Security Engineering AIX currently supports the use of an SHA512 based password encryption algorithm for the storage of user passwords using a proprietary algorithm based on PKCS #5 v2.1 based encryption st...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Exposed libptools library interfaces for customer use

1. Symbol lookups, with all appropriate relocations considered, based on recorded artifacts: for example, gensyms, genld -l and process listing data. I can do this now with a pure Perl implementation I wrote, but that implementation is slow compar...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Better errors notification or commands to diagnose LDAP problem in HMC.

We are beginning to use LDAP to authenticate admins who are using the HMC, but are not having success. We don't see any problems when using local authentication. I have tested our LDAP settings from a Linux host with the "ldapsearch" tool availabl...
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration