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 support for using fcnvme devices as Physical Volumes for Shared Storage Pools

    fcnvme (NVMe over Fibre Channel) seems to come with better performance and fewer constraints than fcscsi.Since AIX already supports this technology, I would like to see SSPs extended to allow for these devices to be used as the Physical Volumes fo...
    about 13 hours ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Add the ability to change IFS journal inherit flag regardless of journal state

    When you set the inherit flag for a directory when starting journalling there is no way to remove that flag without ending journalling, starting journalling again without the flag set and then ending journalling again. You also cannot change the f...
    about 14 hours ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

    Enable block nesting in Cobol source members (OPM as well as ILE)

    Ctrl-Shift-O (Show Block Nesting) and Ctrl-Shift-M (jump the cursor to the beginning or end of a code block) are very useful shortcuts when it comes to editing block statements (e.g. an IF/ELSE block) within RPG. Both shortcuts however do not work...
    about 18 hours ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

    Allow attribute mapping for automount through LDAP

    If using automount through LDAP, AIX's secldapclntd is hardcoded to use attributes 'automountMapName + automountKey' or 'nisMapName + cn'. Those are the only two options. An attribute map file should be allowed to specify different attribute names...
    3 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    ACS Run SQL Scripts - Move Tab to New Window

    Sometimes I will have 2+ tabs open in a single Run SQL Scripts window, but then have a need to pull one out into its own window. Currently this is a manual process - Open a new window, open the desired SQL script or copy/paste the original tab's c...
    5 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Add support to update PowerVC Fabric managed keys in the Appliance

    PowerVC Fabric certificate replacement may require copying certifates into the trust store as well as manually copying to the PowerVC opt folders
    5 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Include trial license with RDi 9.9

    Please add the temporary trial license to RDi 9.9. I had a fully licensed copy of RDi 9.8 (permanent licenses are handled by my client). I upgraded to 9.9, but because there is no license included, my RDi 9.9 is useless. Nothing works without the ...
    5 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

    Add support for signed certificate installation for PowerVC Appliance

    PowerVC customers need to provide a signed certificate for accessing PowerVC UI, PowerVC Appliance does not provide a feature to import the customer signed certificates This can be manually circumvented by engaging support to PESH to install, howe...
    5 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Enable scheduling automatic Backup via PowerVC Web UI

    Taking automatic Backups of PowerVC ensures that in worst-case szenarios the Company is able to redeploy PowerVC with minimal time & reconfiguration effort. In previous Versions admins had the functionality to configure automatic backup schedu...
    6 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Allow MONMSG RMV(*YES)

    When running CL programs, the joblog contains a lot of messages that are not relevant to the process. For example consider this code snippet below which leaves message cpf9801 in the joblog. On the other hand, `monmsg cpf9801 exec(do) RMV(*YES)` w...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

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