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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    Update nmon to use the new folding API

    Currently, the NMON algorithm is showing continuous unfolding in the reporting when none is really happening
    1 day ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Extend the TSD database to include everything that ships with AIX

    Currently, there are many binaries/libraries that are not part of the TSD. As a direct result of this, enabling Trusted Execution produces a large volume of logging. Another side effect is that it's effectively a non-starter to set Trusted executi...
    1 day ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    AIX Toolbox needs feature parity with RHEL.

    By not having a fat FOSS layer, IBM is self-selecting AIX out of consideration for the vast majority of ISVs out there. Note that I have nothing but praise and respect for the team that is keeping the Toolbox alive on a shoestring budget, but they...
    1 day ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    LDAP configuration in HMC poses a security risk with "Bind Password"

    When configuring LDAP on the HMC console, you are required to enter the 'Bind Password'. This password is masked with dots instead of characters, but there is a button next to the password field that allows you to reveal it.From a security perspec...
    2 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    PowerVC virtual appliance DLPAR and LPM support

    The appliance is running on Power .Please enable DLPAR and LPM support including the required software and configs in the Operating System build
    3 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    PowerVC running EOL MariaDB 10.5 embedded database

    Current PowerVC levels 2.2 and 2.3 both are running at MariaDB version 10.5 which is EOL as of 16th July 2025 Please add latest version of the MariaDB to PowerVC versions 2.2 and 2.3
    4 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Enhance %CHAR or create a new built-in that referrences an array as a character string

    RPG IV currently lacks a clean, safe, and expressive way in free-form RPG to treat an array (or a contiguous subset of an array) as a character string. This gap is most visible when attempting to replicate the behavior of the legacy MOVEA opcode, ...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

    in RUN SQL SCRIPT to have the ability to run scripts from GitLab

    We have a GitLab, and all our SQL scripts are stored in this GitLab. To run them in RUN SQL SCRIPT, we first need to download them to our PC. Would it be possible to have access to a URL to open the script directly in GitLab?
    10 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    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...
    11 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

    Add a new service that will convert *DTS columns to character date format.

    When selecting and displaying data from a file with columns of type *DTS char( 8) the column cannot be viewed correctly via SQL 'SELECT' or handled directly for file search and review. Using the TIMESTAMP_FORMAT or the VARCHAR_FORMAT functions wil...
    11 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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