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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    IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement

    IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement Title: Automated or Centralized Deconfiguration of SR-IOV Virtual Functions (VFs) Across LPARs for Adapter Maintenance Description: In environments using SR-IOV with vNICs and re...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVM 4 Submitted

    Add support for USB devices >256GB

    As LTO Drives and media getting larger (and more expensive) it is not longer suitable for a daily backup on small environments. So a lot of customers use USB thumbdrives, but these are only supported up to 256GB Please add support (and test) for l...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Hardware 6 Under review

    The "BIOS battery extender" enables simple BIOS battery changes in a computer without stopping the production line. (DE-Patent: AZ: 10 2023 003 285.9)

    Problem Inside computers is a BIOS battery. The BIOS battery ensures that when the computer is turned off, the BIOS configuration settings are not lost. Since the batteries lose charge over time, they must be replaced regularly. A state-of-the-art...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Hardware 0 Submitted

    lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System> command work as is for Power11 Systems

    The command lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System Name> for Power11 Systems will yield and error : "The command entered is either missing a required parameter or a parameter value is invalid. The parameters that are missing or have an inval...
    2 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

    Enable Shared Processor Pool within PEP 2.0

    In the current implementation of PEP 2.0, the processor resources available in operation are composed of the respective Base Activations per machine and the additional credits. The limit of the usable resources corresponds to the total installed p...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Enable PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM) for DB2 HA clusters using Pacemaker and SBD watchdogs on RHEL9 Power systems

    Currently, IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM) fails for RHEL9 DB2 HA clusters that use Pacemaker with SBD (STONITH Block Device), due to the pseries_wdt watchdog driver preventing partition suspend.This limitation directly impacts IBM DB2 H...
    about 2 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

    Linear Tape File System (LTFS) support on IBM i

    LTFS is a common LTO tape format for offline archive across multiple platforms. It would be valuable for system adminstrators/operators if IBM i platform could also supports LTFS formatted LTO tape cartridge.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Hardware 2 Not under consideration

    Low latency interpartion communication on Power.

    Idea is about improvement of inter-partition communication on Power. As a part of our internal PoC project we have been reqested to measure latency between virtual lpars running on one hardware ( POWER 9) and compare results with results between v...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Future consideration

    LPM exchanges vNIC servicing VIOS every time

    We are using two power systems with vNIC virtualisation. Because we want to know which vios is using which ethernet adapter we select vio1 for servicing vNICs running on adapter cards c1 and c2 and vio2 for servicing adapter cards c8 and c9 (examp...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Submitted

    Power10 IBM i S1014 4-core SW group P05, is currently limited to 64 GB, should be expanded to at least 256 GB.

    It's really very necessary this change because all application need more resources specially memory; before 64 GB they were enough, now not anymore.
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 3 Not under consideration

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