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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Ideas

    Showing 110

    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...
    about 13 hours ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Provide a tool Admins can use to review PTF cover letters for Special and Activation Instructions

    Currently there is no tool available to assist Admins when reviewing PTF cover letters prior to loading and installing PTF's. This would be helpful as there are thousands of PTF's in a typical deployment. It is impossible to review each cover lett...
    2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Submitted

    PEP2.0 should allow three POWER generations in 1 pool

    PEP2.0 currently supports TWO generations of Power hardware (like Power8+9, Power9+10 of Power10+11) in one pool. Suppose you currently have E950 and E1050 in one Enterprise Pool, adding an E1150 to the same pool is not possible. If you want to ke...
    4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    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

    IBM websites remember you but ask MFA repeatedly

    I am an IBM champion, also Authorized Program Administrator and Primary Relationship Contact and I also work as engineer with the Support portal, FixCentral etc. That means I login to IBM websites a lot. Luckily most IBM sites I use now use a sing...
    4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Warn customers before Defective PTFs are applied

    Customers often download CUMEs or HIPERs well before they plan to apply them. During the interim, one or more PTFs may be marked defective, but the system allows the PTFs to be applied without warning customers. The following scenario is a possibl...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Notification Details- Call Home

    We would like to explore the possibility to get all the details available on this notification such as: Host name of the device, serial number, model, type. with that we can have more information and details at the time that the call home event is...
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Have possibility to download PTFs via https

    Hello, in our company we are forbidden to use java web start as it was marked as vulnerability and FTP connection is being slowly banned out as well. Would there be option (same as for fixes for other IBM products like storage etc) to use https fo...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    E-mail about CMC socket subscription expiring lacks vital information

    There are e-mails being sent out by CMC to warn us about expiring CMC socket subscriptions. We run into the problem that the e-mail lacks vital information to take immediate action. The e-mail currenty lists the number of sockets that are affected...
    4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Size decrease when downloading PTFs Groups

    Hello, My idea is simple. When downloading PTF group images, we would have option to upload some kind of PTF output file (which will tell fix central which PTFs are already on IBM i partition) which will be than processed on fix central and make d...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.