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
    over 6 years ago in PowerVM 4 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.
    about 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...
    about 8 years ago in PowerVM 6 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

    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.
    about 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...
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM 1 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
    about 6 years ago in PowerVM 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

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