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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    PEP2.0 SAP Linux Dedicated processors

    Possibility to manage dedicated processors inside/along power enterprise pool 2.0
    about 6 years ago in PowerVM 4 Delivered

    Provide an IBM i Service for Collection Services configuration information

    I have a need to review the Collection Services configuration when I work with clients. I must either do this manually through the GUI or with the CFGPFRCOL command. There is the Retrieve Collection Services Attributes API, but this would require ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 2 Delivered

    in SR-IOV we can define a comment field for FC adapter and vFC adapter in the LPAR in AIX and VIOS. This would be useful to t

    in SR-IOV we can define a comment field for FC adapter and vFC adapter in the LPAR in AIX and VIOS. This would be useful to tag fabrics , usage etc.
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM 3 Delivered

    Request work-around for CPU Meltdown and Spectra Issue

    Platform========Power System 7, 7+, 8, 9AIX 7.XVIOS 2.X Description===========Samsung Electronics Global-ERP system has a concern about CPU Meltdown and Spectre Patch issue.(CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5754) As you know, i-fixes for...
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM 6 Delivered

    Comment tagging for SR-IOV and FC/vFC

    in SR-IOV we can define a comment field for FC adapter and vFC adapter in the LPAR in AIX and VIOS. This would be useful to tag fabrics , usage etc.
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM 4 Delivered

    UAK: Automatically update UAK's when approaching expiration.

    IBM has multiple sites detailing how to set up your HMC (or single lpar system running IBMi) to automatically retrieve Update Access Keys. However it does little good if you still have to go to ESS for each system and request a new key manually. U...
    about 4 years ago in PowerVM 1 Delivered

    PDI - CPU/Jobs/Pre-start jobs graph

    When using PDI the CPU can be viewed at from a wide variety of different angels. We are missing a graph showing the number of jobs on the system related to the CPU consumption. As in today's world pre-start jobs on IBM i are becoming more and more...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 3 Delivered

    Memory usage

    In iDoctor a graph is available in which the Memory Usage is shown of a specific memory pool. The IBM i performance data is used to build this graph, meaning that this information is stored in the performance database. I would like to have a simil...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 3 Delivered

    Graph History Stacked Charts by Month: Stack by day of the week (Sun thru Sat) rather than day of the month (1-31)

    Graph History stacked charts, when stacked by month, are not helpful as they are stacked by day of the month (1, 2, 3….). However, day of the month generally doesn't align with business activity. It would b much better for the charts to be stacked...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 4 Delivered

    Provide method to update ASMI password using scripts

    Provide method to update ASMI password using scripts - either with direct SSH or via HMC etc
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVM 1 Delivered

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