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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    enhancement with PowerHA Site-failure scenario with Hyperswap design

    It is about IBM i site failure protection with PowerHA + HyperSwap. When the source server and storage both power down, suppose the target server and storage (DS8K) will takeover the iASP asap. But there is a scenario the target LPAR will be hang ...
    19 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

    With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 7 Future consideration

    implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs.

    Implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs. When a node failure occurs on the service machine and the shared disk created by AIX LVM mirror is taken over to the standby machine, syncvg is forced using t...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    Recommend to enhance iASP HA solution and user prompting to improve user experience

    Recommend to enhance iASP solution and user prompting to improve user experience
    25 days ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    vdisk_protection_enabled in IBM i PowerHA environments

    This is the corresponding RFE to RFE number 141546 but for IBM i side.Spectrum Virtualize (be it flashsystems or SVC) introduced feature to restrict LUNS from being unmapped or deleted from storage when there was I/O in last XX minutes.This featur...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Future consideration

    Add feature to be able to add mount options to NFS cross mounts

    For some our NFS cross mounted filesystems we need to be able to add additional NFS mount options. This is a requirement triggered by SAP. It also should be added to the SAP Smart Assist tools.
    almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    Add options to use different shared Filesystems for SAP Smart Assist

    When using PHA SAP Smart Assist it is required to use NFS 4.It would be very helpful to have an option to use NFS 3 or ISS (GPFS) instead.
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    Notifications and Alerting

    Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Better Visibility/Logging

    It would be a great help to provide logs to allow end users the ability to triage issues.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    RBAC for PowerHA and AdminDomain

    It would be helpful to provide product level security where not everyone can access administrative tasks. View access vs. Admin access.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

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