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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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    Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

    For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    BRMS ICC backup to AWS Cloud only allows US East region for storing data

    Please see PMR Case number TS016529098. We are looking to use BRMS to send backup data to an S3 bucket at AWS. By default it is directing to AWS US East region and we are told there is no option to send data to another region. We faced issues with...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

    IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

    It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
    11 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

    Cloud Storage Solutions for i 5733ICC - Multi-threaded downloads

    I've configured the mutil-threaded uploads for this product and it made a significant improvement to the upload times. It would be beneficial to be able to do this for the downloads.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    Cloud Connector STATUS needs a better method of identifying HMCs

    The STATUS tab for Cloud Connector ( under Setup ) does not provide a simple and consistent method of identifying the HMCs. It would be helpful to have an additional column that contains the name of the HMC to keep consistency with other screens a...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Under review

    CMC to support dual HMC

    Currently we can add two HMC for a power hardware, but i guess it actively uses only one. As soon as the active hmc gets disconnects or frame-hmc connection fails, CMC dont display frame(systems) information all over the place. primarly PEP2 appli...
    about 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Under review

    PEP 2.0 - Ability to disable/offline resources(CPU/Memory)

    Currently PEP 2.0 activates all installed resources. This creates lot of issues with our capacity management, performance monitoring and high availability. Please have an option to disable specific number of CPU and memory on the frame.
    about 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 4 Under review

    CMC to be integrated with Capacity Planning Tool

    Customer is requesting for the CMC visuals to be integrated with CPT
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Under review

    IBM Cloud Support Notifications

    When sending email updates on support cases, can you include the current case status (maybe former too)? I ask because, often I create cases and your team will update it in the portal to say they are researching or something similar. I then get an...
    about 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Under review

    5733-icc allow/support from local files in qsys.lib

    manual says local file can't be in qsys.lib. If you create savf of file, library/schema as a savf and want to upload to cloud, this should be allowed, even if one has to use qsys.lib/mylib.lib/myfile.file method (it works)
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

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