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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    mksysb for RHEL, ease of management and DR with same process as for AIX

    After years of using AIX one gets used to work with an operating system that really support you in regards of DR. We can use mksysb, alt_disk_”functions” and LU for AIX but is more limited in using Linux features. We would like to see how mksysb c...
    about 1 month ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Under review

    Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers

    For Power9 Ubuntu was supported for Novalink. For Power10 it is not, and only RHEL is supported and it is not free. We need to have Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers. Ubuntu 22.04 is a long term support so it is worth ...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 6 Future consideration

    Add support for hpt_ratios

    Novalink supports PPT but not HPT (hardware page table), as such cannot tune memory for LPARs managed by novalink as you can on HMC managed. lshwres -r mem --level sys -F possible_hpt_ratios [PVME01040180-0024] Attribute possible_hpt_ratios is not...
    6 months ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

    Need support of HMC CLI on Novalink

    When moving from HMC to Novalink i have the problem that all my scripts i wrote over years for adding / changing and deleting LPARS are not working anymore because Novalink doenst nuderstand HMC CLI commands e.g. lssyscfg etc. There is a developme...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    Create and update a list with all software (vendors) and applications available on ppc64le.

    Support for an easy platform selection for appplications, present ppc64le as available. Today its more "going" x86 only since "people in general" either dont know of Power Systems or dont bother to check ppc64le alternative, therefor miss out on p...
    over 3 years ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 1 Future consideration

    Add rr-debugger compatibility with POWER on Linux

    rr-debugger (https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr) provides the ability to record a test case that fails, and conveniently navigate forwards and backwards using a gdb interface to examine the program at various program states. This can be used to sol...
    almost 2 years ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Future consideration

    Add installer option to select alternate adapter to slot 3

    Clients would like to install novalink in greenfield environments and select the slot used.
    8 months ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    novalink as a NIM server

    IBM Cloud suggests it would be helpful if Novalink could be a NIM service for ALL client lpars on a host independent of PowerVC tenant ID
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    PyPowerVM should have a Remove License Key API

    PyPowerVM does not have functionality to remove licenses via Novalink.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

    novalink selection of IP interface

    Add interface selection to Novalink to allow correct network solution
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

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