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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    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 ...
    over 1 year 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...
    almost 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

    Have WRKPRB generate Cases, not PMR's

    WRKPRB is generating PMR's. IBM has switched over to Cases instead of PMR's. WRKPRB2. Report problem CPC8C03Problem reporting complete. Service number is 78100,082,000.This should show the Case number instead. Use Case: Service and support
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 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...
    over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

    Add support to PRTTRC to sort by *TIME

    The PRTTRC has a parameter, SORT, that has two options: *TIME and *THREAD. Attempting to sort by *TIME results in CPF98FF, Function currently not supported. Cause: *TIME Not supported. We intend to provide this function at a future date. This has ...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 4 Delivered

    Improve MSD Reclaim time

    With 512 / 4096 sectored disk units, MSD reclaim runs single threaded. This can result in a MSD taking hours to complete. On a system with 4tb of memory C6004242 - Reclaim main storage: pass 1 step 2 took four hours and fifteen minutes to complete...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 6 Delivered

    STRSST: Remove diskette data recovery

    STRSST4. Work with diskette data recovery.Diskettes have not been supported in decades. Use Case: Improve customer perception that service tools are being verified as still fully functional and supported.
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 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

    Add 7.4 support to the list of PTF's

    Add 7.4 to document N1021943 athttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/access-ptf-cover-letters Use Case: service and support
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Delivered

    Need SAS tape support in deskside model

    Many of the small IBM i customers have deskside systems. We need SAS tape support in the 9105-41B deskside model.
    over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

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