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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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Start and stop the Syslog server on the IBM i

Add the ability to start and stop the Syslog server on IBM i to the STRTCPSVR and ENDTCPSVR commands.Similarly, in Navigator for IBM i
9 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Sending Apache Server access and error logs to a Syslog Server

Enable sending of Apache Server access and error logs on IBM i to a local or remote Syslog Server
9 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Fix bug in CHGSMTPA

When you run CHGSMTPA you can choose SBSD in which you can run smtp jobs. This parameter allows putting 10 chars for the *sbsd object and 10 chars for the library. When you use a 10-character library in the parameter, however, errors occur in both...
2 months ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Allow option to not log invalid OID requests as TCP4012 in job QTMSNMP

It was discovered while a monitoring team had the IBM i LPARs set up in SolarWinds (SW) for SNMP monitoring that the QTMSNMP jobs were reaching maximum log size and ending. IBM support identified that among the OIDs SW was requesting were OIDs tha...
17 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

OAuth support for gmail email from IBMi

I've put this request in because Tech Support had nothing and recommended this as the course of action at this time. As of September 30, 2024, gmail is no longer allowing POP and SMTP for email. Anyone using gmail to send emails from the IBMi will...
8 months ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Submitted

Telnet Server Attributes for V7R4

Currently there is no API to get telnet server attributes or SQL services in V7R4.The use case for this is for system parmeters docummentation. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1119123
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted