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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 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

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

Make ibm more strong

Because ibm acadmic website is too buffer
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 1 Not under consideration

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

In Db2 Web Query SCHEDULER, enhance screen to allow Execution ID to be changed.

Use case for this is DeveloperA makes a report and places on schedule. Later, it is determined that the USER-ID executing the report (i.e DeveloperA) must change. Perhaps, when report and schedule moved from TEST to PROD, or User has moved to new ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 5 Not under consideration

Allow embedding of DB2 Web Query reports in other webpages

Currently DB2 Web Query sends X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN in the header which prevents embedding reports in other webpages if the host and port does not match. There is curenlty no way in DB2 Web Query to modify this behavior. To maitain security p...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under consideration

WebQuery: Can not see a PF when create a synonym

WebQuery: Can not see a PF table name when create a synonym if the PF system table name is different. Use Case: Search a PF table name for create a synonym not show but if search a PF system table name it is showed.
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Not under 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

WQ document Report Heading

Db2 Web Query is used to make both single and compound reports. Compound reports are made by opening a document and adding multiple reports. Current Db2 Web Query behavior of reports contained within a document fail to perform as designed in InfoA...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 5 Not under 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