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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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Limit KSYS to discover disks attached to KSYS managed LPARs & using local cache when nothing changed since last discovery

Name of the software vendor: IBM is the product vendor but the product needs to discover and use EMC storage array disks using Storage Enabler softwareApplication name: VMRM-DR KSYSData store(s) for the application e.g. DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, Open Sou...
over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

IKE should trigger ODT tunnel for any valid incoming IKE negotiation.

Incoming non-IKE packets trigger ODT on AIXFor Windows and Linux (StrongSwan) IPsec implementations only valid incoming IKE N/W traffic will trigger the dynamic negotiation of the IKE tunnels on these Operating systems.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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

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

Add Yum like REPO to AIX

Installing and maintaining RPMs can be very difficult due to dependency issues. IBM's own Michael Perzl has done some excellent work in this area, however it is still not as simple as it could be when compared to Linux.
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

First TCP/IP Retransmission time too long(1.5 seconds or so)

[ Request ]Customer want to shorten the initial TCP/IP retransmission timeout (currently 1500 msec) of AIX since response performance is important their financial trading system. In PMR 76617,695,760, we have confirmed that current initial TCP/IP ...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered
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ODBC driver for Mac

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Provide an ODBC driver for Mac OSX that can communicate with DB2 for i. Use Case: Windows and Linux desktop users can configure their open source language development environment (i.e. VSCode with Node.js) to connect to DB2 for i. This is great be...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

Include Patch for GSSAPI key exchange support in AIX version of OpenSSH

IBM Power Systems customer Bloomberg requests that AIX include the Patch for GSSAPI key exchange support in the AIX version of OpenSSH. All other commercial Unix operating systems used by this customers contain this patch as well as major commerci...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered