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 SmartDR control functions to SRDF file sets for PowerHA

    Currently we have customer applications which have servers with PowerHA installed using SVC SAN storage. I am managing the migration from SVC SAN storage to EMC PMAX SAN Storage which includes a new feature called SmartDR (AKA MetroDR) fromDell-EM...
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 3 Delivered

    D-IPL from direct attached FC tape, no HMC

    a) D-IPL from direct attached fibre channel tape is no longer supported, despite direct attachment (no fibre channel switch required) being supported for many FC HBA's on the IBM i. Only the withdrawn #5735 FC HBA still supports D-IPL from direct ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 12 Delivered

    Release reservation made on tape drive with a D-M IPL

    When a D M IPL is done to start an IBM i lpar from tape and the system is powered down again from within SST (before anything is installed), the reservation made on the tape drive does not get released. In order to be able to use the same drive to...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 6 Delivered

    LAN console setup - reduce complexity and use fixed parameters.

    Newly delivered 41G system (with 7.4 preloaded) and LAN console. Proceeded as described inhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power9/9009-41G?topic=use-cabling-server-accessing-operations-consolebut - no console. Tested everything from cable, PC, settings...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 13 Delivered

    incorrect conversion of the serial number for tape libraries

    The serial numbers of tape libraries are only taken over correctly in the Hardware Service Manager if they are hexadecimal.Since the serial numbers of the newer devices now also use letters outside of A..F, i.e. G..Z, these are displayed as "0".Th...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 5 Delivered

    IBM i tape virtualization for TS3500

    IBM i 7.4 TR2 added tape library virtualization from host to client partitions. This works VERY WELL with out TS4300 tape libraries. We are looking at migrating to a VTL solution, and that solution presents as a TS3500 tape library. Can support fo...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 7 Delivered

    The relationships attribute of the HACMPsvcpprc HACMP ODM class can store character strings of a total length of 1024 chars

    Current PowerHA configuration contains following limitations. The most important limitation is 1024 chars for SVC Metro Mirror relationships. This limitation is not set on number of Metro Mirror relations, but on number of chars. In client's big e...
    over 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

    Add LAN Console config to savsys in order to be able to ipl from savsys without loadsource

    Currently standalone servers are using LAN Console as the console of choice, in many case where access to the disk loadsource fials for whatever reason it is a disaster to get LAN console up and running , you hav eto use the control panel function...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 4 Delivered

    Add cancel option if an RG handling failed

    Today, if a RG processing fails. After a manual fix all remaining tasks mast be finished to get the cluster to a stable state.I would be good to have a cancel option.So that after, manually removing the reason why it failed, the RG handling can be...
    over 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

    Need for PowerHA ROHA access to HMC by exchanging SSH Key rather entering Password

    When setting up PowerHA ROHA we need to enter for accessing HMC with Userid a password. It would be more useful to setup also HMC access with SSH Key.
    almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 4 Delivered

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