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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    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despite direct attachment (no fibre channel switch required) being supported for many FC HBA's on the IBM i. Only the withdrawn #5735 FC HBA still supports D-IPL from direct ...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

    PowerSC MFA solution to create an allow/block list for users.

    It would be useful to have a feature added to PowerSC MFA inorder to create a list of users to which the MFA should not be applicable. This is a requirement in our environment as we have multiple automation/service users which perform some kind of...
    over 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 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

    PowerSC Patch Management replication feature should work with non-root users

    The PowerSC Patch Management feature allows Primary-Secondary TNCPM topology- the primary server downloads TLs, SPs, ifixes etc and replicates them to the the secondary TNCPM server. For this, we need to configure password-less root SSH between pr...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 2 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

    PowerSC TNCPM should allow installation of ifixes without NIM

    PowerSC TNCPM is widely used by customers to deploy security patches on AIX LPARs. Currently, the security ifixes are installed through NIM server. Some customers do not use NIM because NIM has a complex port requirement as described in the follow...
    over 2 years ago in PowerSC 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

    PowerSC should provide a configurable parameter to specify the validity of TLS certificates

    PowerSC is a great tool to manage security and compliance of AIX and Linux endpoints running on Power servers. PowerSC server communicates with the endpoints in a secure way using a TLS connection. Currently, the validity of TLS certificates is ha...
    over 5 years ago in PowerSC 1 Delivered

    PowerSC GUI server custom bind address

    By default PowerSC GUI Server listen on all IP addresses, binding to the port 443 (customizable), and there's no way to specify a custom/specific IP address for the binding. This is quite critical as if there are other services listening on the sa...
    about 7 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

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