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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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Show Graph for Cores used of BASE Capacity in PEP2.0 Inventory

In the PEP2.0 part of CMC is a inventory sheet which shows usage of core and memory in percentage of installed resources in a donut chart.We request an additional chart which shows the percentage of usage of core and memory of base resources.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Delivered

Introduce More Granular Filters within CMC to filter out customer sensitive information

Request to introduce more granular filtering capabilities for information received/stored on MCM and cloudant database in IBM cloud.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 4 Delivered

Please we need a web interface to manage POWERHA for IBM-i!

With the new web interface you can only monitor the resources on the cluster and this its not so useful really. It's 2023 and for manage powerha i currently still use the old Heritage. It's a painful task.
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 3 Delivered

Add whitelist option in for adding systems

There is only a blacklist option for systems in CMCEvery system that should not show up in CMC must be blacklisted in the settings / Cloudconnector tab. We want to have whitelist option in CMC to have more control which systems are visible in CMC
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered

POWERHA IBM i Service

I'd like to see a DB2 Service showing POWERHA status, cluster status, IASP status, CRG status, Administrative Domain status. Use Case: Allow me to programmatically check the status of an IASP and POWERHA information. This would allow for automated...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 6 Delivered

IASP Switching Automation

Provide a product that is end-to-end automated from the time the system is switch ready to switch complete for the IASP and associated jobs. This would include continuous monitoring for any activities that are needed to ensure the system is switch...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 6 Delivered

Need alert when performance data not arriving in CMC from any HMC

We need to be informed when performance data from any HMC is not arriving any more for Power Server and LPARS via email and SMS Service.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered

PEP 2.0 - Masking or translating the SystemName/LPAR name

To be able to use PEP 2.0 in security sensitive environments. It is necessary to mask or rename the SystemNames and the LPAR names. To review the collected data by the customer it is needed that the rename logic can be defined by the customer.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Delivered

Support the system distribution directory within the PowerHA administrative domain

Similiar to User Profiles, include Directory Entries (including SMTP info) in the Admin Domain to keep the Directory Entries updated on the DR system. Use Case: Used for emailing from the IBMi.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 4 Delivered

Add HMC to CMC overview for systems

Please add all types of HMC (Physical and virtual) to the CMC in the overview of systems
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered