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 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.
    1 day ago in Hardware Management Console 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

    Create serviceable events support for all Power Systems not only Power 11

    ich beziehe mich auf die kürzlich veröffentlichte Funktion zur Erstellung von Service-Cases direkt über das HMC-Interface. Diese Neuerung ist ein hervorragender Schritt, um die Fehlerbehebungszeiten zu verkürzen und den Prozess der Datensammlung z...
    27 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    REST API Certificate Automation

    This is useful to customers looking to automate the renewals for HMC certificates.
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    Add "Inband" instead of empty Space in HMC GUI when Inband is in use

    If inband is in use on P11 machine you see only empty space instead of an IP Address....maybe you can add the word Inband into the IP Address field when Inband is in place rather IP Address. Thx vince
    16 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Enable multiple OUs on CSRs coming from the HMC

    Most PKIs are structured hierarchially with more than one OU, in our case it is not possible to sign a Certificate Request with only one OU via our internal PKI. Also: Self signed certificates will increasingly be banned in the future - which is a...
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add logging of ssh Sessions to lssvcevents -t console command

    Hi, it would be nice to log information about users connecting via commandline (ssh) to HMC. Currently only Weblogin Events are listed for type console. For audit purposes every login needs to be recognized. mfg. ku
    9 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Different time zones for the HMC

    Small manufacturing customers very often use onre single Power System for their ERP infrasturcure, but they may have several LPARs for their subsidaries in Asia, Europe and Americas. These regions have different time zones, but the HMC has only on...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Return previous functionality to virtual storage management via top level server to allow changes to client vFC and fcs ports.

    If a VIOS fcs port fails or becomes unreliable there is no means to move the existing client vFC (WWPN) to a different fcs via the GUI. This capability was available in a previous release - along with the ability to create RO virtual media in the ...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

    HMC Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode

    HMC should have a Patch Management: Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode. IBM should provide a easy way for Patch Management. System Firmware and Adapter microcode report in one tool (something Microcode Discovery tool...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 13 Planned for future release

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