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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

    Showing 332

    add CLI option to GUI-feature : "Schedule-management" jobs

    setting up "Schedule-management" jobs is currently a GUI-only feature. (V11R1M1111) add a CLI functionality to this feature. and a clear logging/messaging for active or expired schedule jobs.
    5 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add Group-Tags in dynamic inventory in powervm_inventory

    Hello, Grouptags are a cool feature in the HMC GUI. Unfortunately, they are no longer available via the CLI. -> https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-554 It would be great to have this feature in the dynamic HMC Ansible inventory ...
    2 days ago in Hardware Management Console 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...
    10 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Update QUSRWRK Subsystem to give customer the ability to assign an SSL Only Prestart Job Program (QZDASSINIT) & Remove the Non-SSL Only Prestart Job program (QZDASOINIT)

    Right now, certain interactions with Web Service Servers attach to the 2 Prestart Job entries for QZDASOINIT (Non-SSL). We do not allow any Non-SSL JDBC/ODBC Connections from outside of the IBM i in our Network. We do not think this current Presta...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

    JES2 $TA commands should be checkpointed so they survive IPLs or JES2 restarts

    JES2 automatic commands ($TA commands) do not survive IPLs or JES2 restarts. Many times, $TA commands are set to execute days into the future. If an IPL occurs before the set execution time, the target of the $TA commands never get executed. $TA c...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    Performance reports shows write cache overruns when controllers don't have write cache

    when your system is equipped with NVMEs without write cache the Performance Report shows actual a write cache overrun of 99,9%. Since there is no write cache that can overrun it should adress the report with "N/A", 'cause the 99,9% indicate a fail...
    2 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

    upgrade HMC service-management-panel - dump-panel - to add IBM-support-case-no when calling-home a dump

    It will ease up work with HMC-GUI to have an option to add the IBM-Support-case-no. to a dump-file when choosing " call-home dump ". This will give IBM-ECUREP the feature to right place the uploaded dump-file to the correct IBM-support-case unless...
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    Provide support for Azure Local

    Client requests that our 9500 storage be supported for Azure Local
    4 days ago in IBM i / Hardware 0 Submitted

    Allow calculated values for CONST and INZ

    Currently, only hard-coded values ​​are allowed when initializing a variable or constant. dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(2147483648) ; dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(x'80000000') ; or dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SENT uns(10) inz(2147483648) const ; dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SE...
    18 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    enable interactive user and password authentication on sftp client

    It would be useful to have the same possibility that is present on all other Windows and Linux systems.
    18 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.