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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    extend Support for HMC classic View after Release 8.8.6

    Wir benutzen den classic View auf der HMC in der Version 8.8.6. Beim letzten Update ist aufgefallen das die Version 8.8.6 die letzte Version sein soll, die den classic View unterstützt.Mit dem enhanced+ View haben wir erhebliche Performance Proble...
    over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

    DO NOT Drop support for X86 HMC

    IBM Has announced they will drop support for the X86 HMC BEFORE CUSTOMER LEASES ARE EVEN COMPLETE! This is BALDERDASH! I get it you want to support just one piece of hardware and the Power HMC is the correct choice. But especially customers who bo...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 7 Not under consideration

    IBM i V7R1 request for S914 and S924 Support Also

    It was announced that IBM i V7R1 will be supporting the S922 and E980 beginning Nov 20, 2020. Multiple partners and clients in the US and Canada have asked why the S914 and S924 are excluded as they have customers with legacy applications that the...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Not under consideration

    HMC simple linux diag-commands for rsh-shell

    make simple Linux diag-commands like "top", "lscpu", "lsmem", "mvcli" etc. available on HMC-rsh-shell.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Enable command line activation of collecting performance data on HMC

    Currently there is no way to programmatically change the data collection settings. The only way to change them is within the HMC gui. There needs to be a way to query and change them from the command line. It appears that the commands are there (l...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Availability to disable default BMC User (Admin privilege)

    Availability to disable the default BMC User (Admin privilege) on both hardware appliance products. CR1 (admin user) CR2 (root user)
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

    IBM should offer inexpensive no-production-use IBM i licenses for discontinued hardware

    The title says it all: for a nominal* charge, IBM should offer limited (processor, user count, use case) licenses to run the core IBM i OS and related no-charge licensed products on Power Systems hardware that is no longer sold and/or supported, a...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 6 Not under consideration

    Add image catalog entries

    Adding entries to an image catalog is always cumbersome however the API QVOIFIMG makes it an easy task but this one isn't available on the WRKIMGCLG screen. Please add this function on the screen so I don't need to remember the name of the API of ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 8 Not under consideration

    ASMI Data collection from HMC CLI

    We would like to be able to see ASMI logs directly from HMC CLI. For more details please check TS001639762.
    about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Enable IBM i system recovery using network image

    Currently, even with BRMS cloud storage solution, full system recovery fore IBM i is not achievable 100%completely via network. You need to load LIC and OS initially from some type of physical device like tape or DVD drive and then restore rest fr...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 8 Not under consideration

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