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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    CMC - Thresholds for used % of the Enterprise Pools base capacity

    Within the CMC Enterprise Pools App we are missing a configurable threshold for used % of the Enterprise Pools base capacity. Because the base capacity is already paid and we want to make sure, that we get informed if we getting close to use credi...
    almost 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Allow PTF's to be downloaded via HTTP instead of FTP or Download Director

    Allow PTF's to be downloaded via HTTPS instead of FTP or Download Director. Some organizations do not allow access to external FTP sites and most Java browsers discourage use of Java applets. Allowing download via HTTPS will make it easier to acce...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Future consideration

    Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

    The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
    11 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

    Group PTF apply date

    Keeping IBM i up-to-date is becoming more and more important when you look at today's threads. (Just think of December 2021 and the log4j issue.)As a result of that reporting when an IBM LPAR was protected also becomes more and more important for ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 8 Future consideration

    need a new PTF Group for IBM i compilers and developer tools 5770-WDS

    Recently I had some PMRs -> APARs resolved by PTFs. The problem is, these new PTFs are not automatically included on any CUMe package and I was very surprised to learn that they were not included in any of the current Group PTFs for IBM i 7.1, ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

    Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

    As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
    7 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 7 Submitted

    Clarification of the Technology Refresh

    The following is the screen text for the PTF package apply for a special handling or a Technology Refresh PTF pack. Confirm IPL to Complete PTF InstallSystem: DATA1A technology refresh PTF and/or special handling PTF requires an initialprogram loa...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Future consideration

    Access data in CMC DB from customer site with Cloud connector key

    We want to have access to the cloud management console database to download data e.g. inventory data, performance data by minute,hour,day, weeks,month ,years etc.We want to store this data in our SPLUNK infrastructure to have consolidated view of ...
    about 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Showing HMC NUMA Scoring in CMC

    For customer it would be helpful to the Per LPAR the NUMA Scoring form HMC also in the CMC
    about 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

    EPP 2.0 subpools

    Today only one single Enterprise Pool is possible. We want to divide a pool into subpools, for example for different subsidiaries or departments. It should be possible to share the base resources across all systems, but people should only be able ...
    over 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

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