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 16

    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

    Option 21 to restricted state

    I would like to be able to easily complete a full system save using option 21 and instead of starting up the controlling subsystem, remain in restricted state (or IPL). Right now, to do this I need to prompt the individual commands for the save, c...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 8 Delivered

    Modernize ObjectConnect to be native TCP/IP

    ObjectConnect should be modernized. Get rid of the APPC stuff and make the SAVRST commands take an hostname or IP Address as a target, and perform everything via native TCP/IP. Improve performance by using secure, multi-threaded connections like D...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 8 Delivered

    RST command enhancement

    Would like the RST command to give me a % processed/remaining objects (or even GB...even more useful) instead of a running count of objects restored. RSTLIB tells me # out of x libraries processed. Use Case: That's incredibly useful from a timing ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 9 Delivered

    Add a modern compression algorithm for SAV/RST

    Even DTACPR(*HIGH) does not compress as well as ZIP, which is a pretty low bar these days. It would be nice to see newer compression algorithms like LZMA2 (7-Zip / xz) added to SAV and RST commands, at least for SAVF. Use Case: Transmitting large ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 9 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

    Go Save option 21 Entire System Save Improvements

    Go Save Option 21 "Entire System Save" would be improved if the following parameters where added: 1) Scheduled Start Date (as well as time) This would allow a user to schedule a system save more than 24 hours ahead of the time they enter the reque...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Delivered

    IBM i Warning Message when SLKM server not available

    Currently, if a backup device is using Hardware Encryption using an SKLM server to provide the keys and the network connection to SKLM servers is not available, the backup device signal a general hardware configuration issue, not that the SKLM ser...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Delivered

    Enable ASYNCBRING by default on SAV command

    Enabling this function generally reduces the time taken for backups to the IFS. With clients that store large amounts of objects in the IFS, the time taken to backup these objects cab be massive. 33% reduction in backup Window is not uncommon. Use...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 6 Delivered

    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.