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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    V7R1 should support newer SSL Ciphers

    Cryptographic support on V7R1 should support the newer SSL Ciphers that V7R2 and up also have. V7R1 is still a supported OS and since most trading partners are updating the SSL certificates that use updated Ciphers, it means that the clients using...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Not under consideration

    PowerVC with PeerZoning/Smart Zoning

    A new type of storage zoning is peerzoning or smartzoning. This method is clearer and more practical to handle. e.g. debugging etc.
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

    Notify when DCM certificate is near to expire

    The improved DCM tool, like its predecessor, does not have notification functionality a few days before certificates expire. It would be very helpful if you can notify us via email or at least in QSYSOPR and set how many days in advance we want yo...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 8 Not under consideration

    Speed up RMC state changes in PowerVC

    In PowerVC sometimes it takes a lot of time until an active RMC state is recognized and shown in PowerVC. The HMC provides an event mechanism over the REST API that may be used to inform PowerVC of RMC state changes. If this mechanism is used the ...
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC HA Architecture for 2 Node Clusters/Sites

    For customers with just 2 sites, a PowerVC Multi-Node implementation with just 2 nodes and STONITH is needed to have a proper working high availability solution. Installing PowerVC Multi-Node with 3 nodes in just 2 sites will always end up in the ...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Need support of Hybrid Network in PowerVC

    We need support of Hybrid Network for High Speed adapter >= 100 GBE
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    PowerVC Support With NetApp Storage

    Banking customer has deployed NetApp (FAS8080) storage with AFF & FAS controllers. Currently CBS is deployed on AFF. And they are evaluating IBM Power8 E880 Systems for Core banking Software (Finacle 10.x).
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 5 Future consideration

    Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

    Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    IBM i SSO authentication against Azure Global AD

    Actually, a valid Network Authentication service and EIM configuration permits to use SSO on IBM i through different Windows AD realms for the users to authenticate to the IBM i using their windows usernames. New times requires new technologies fo...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

    Configuring IPG to be exclusive for Tape Storage Templates

    Most of the Power customers follow the best practice of segregating Disk and Tape traffic onto separate VIOS FC ports. Although PowerVC currently allows for specifying an IPG on Tape storage template (CLI), this IPG can be used by other Storage Te...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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