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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    Add make, model, serial number to subscriptions tab

    Under "Inventory" -> "Subscription", add the make, model, and serial number to the "Subscription Details". As it is today, we have 6 machines all with "2" cores. From this screen, it is impossible to know which of my 6 machines is expiring soon...
    3 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Pop-Up Values in PEP 2.0 graphs for CPU and Memory

    Show values in pop-up when hovering over the individual graph values in the "Core Usage" and "Memory Usage" graphs. IBM says they can already be seen by exporting the csv file but this process takes about 10 mouse clicks. It would be much more eff...
    3 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 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...
    11 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

    Develop a way to signon via QSECOFR account with a password less solution for ACS, Console and web-based applications.

    This is To Comply with Audit requirement to enforce all Privilege Access accounts to move away from visible Passwords .
    18 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    IBM i Minimum password length user level

    On IBM i, the minimum password length is controlled by the system value QPWDMINLEN, which applies uniformly to all user profiles across the platform. While this provides centralized control, it does not allow differentiated password policies based...
    30 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    iAccess Printer Host-Based Security

    Currently QTCP is required to start a Host Based Printer. However, this opens up security that a user can setup a HOST Based printer that allowed them to redirect the HR files. Is it possible to restrict a Host Based Printer from being started unl...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    IP awareness of MFA within TOTP intervals

    MFA authentication must be renewed if requests come from a different IP address, even if a TOTP interval has been set.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    Add a function usage that allows selected users to restore programs with adopted authority, overriding the QALWOBJRST system value.

    For security, a customer may by default set QALWOBJRST to disallow adopted authority objects to be restored. When a justified restore is needed, the setting is relaxed for a short time and for all users rather than just for the user(s) that actual...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

    adding 2 columns to authority collection

    I am using a lot authority collection. Fabulous tool even though not complete (some object types are not covered, which requires extra work). During my numerous remediation projects, I really feel we need to add 2 things in the collection: The tim...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    Do not re-create QSECEXP1 job schedule when changing profile expiration date

    Hi IBM team, When changing the date in the USREXPDATE of the CHGUSRPRF command, the QSECEXP1 job schedule is re-created even if it already exists. Also, the description disapears and the 'Scheduled by' is changed with the profile that did the chan...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

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