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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Static Route Configuration support on Power 10 (eBMC) Systems

With Power 10 eBMC Systems it is no longer possible to configure "static net routes", like on Power 8 and Power 9 Systems (also with Power 10 E1080 with FSP) to attached satellite location to prim. and sec. HMC environment.That could happend with ...
almost 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

Power Systems to support replacement of WWPN's on HBA Cards

On Power9 the EN1C/EN1D cards use hard soldered SFP's; when a SFP fails the HBA must replaced, which requires SAN Zoning Changes These cards have the capability to replace the WWPN/WWNN, and we require a method to update the replacement HBA's WWPN...
about 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 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 Power Systems Hardware to the ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com

The hardware side of Power Systems seems to be missing in this tool. I had to choose "Power Systems: Systems Design" as the closest category which is strange because this doesn't show up in the list of supported categories here: https://www.ibm.co...
almost 4 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 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

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

CHKENVRCY - Add functionality to check logical files that don’t have Access Paths Maintenance journaled

For Smart Assist tool CHKENVRCY add functionality to check for logical files that don’t have Access Paths Maintenance journaled
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Delivered

In the new portal of the Navigator for i not exist PowerHa option

In the new portal of the Navigator for i not exist PowerHa option. The option PowerHa not exist in the Navigator for i in page http://serverip:2002/Navigator/login in other hand, with the page http://serverip:2004/ibm/console/login if the option e...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 4 Delivered

Add support for the 4 core processor in the S1022s for IBMi to enable full utilization of all PCIe slots

Customers need access to all PCIe slots on the S1022s but they do not want to install two 8 Core processors but two 4 core processors. Please add support for the two 4 core processors in the server.
over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered