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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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ICC product should provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has failed

Hello, As per case TS019399743: "...I was working with development teams and sincerely apologize for delayed response. BRMS development team has checked and confirmed that ICC product do not provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has...
25 days ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

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 5 Under review

implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs.

Implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs. When a node failure occurs on the service machine and the shared disk created by AIX LVM mirror is taken over to the standby machine, syncvg is forced using t...
almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

Recommend to enhance iASP HA solution and user prompting to improve user experience

Recommend to enhance iASP solution and user prompting to improve user experience
26 days ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

Enable Virtual Serial Number (VSN) for Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

As currently defined, a Virtual Serial Number (VSN) can only be used once for a single LPAR, with cores fully assigned. This approach significantly limits flexibility. For example, consider a scenario with three LPARs, each assigned 0.4 cores. The...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Not under consideration

5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Submitted

Add feature to be able to add mount options to NFS cross mounts

For some our NFS cross mounted filesystems we need to be able to add additional NFS mount options. This is a requirement triggered by SAP. It also should be added to the SAP Smart Assist tools.
almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

Add options to use different shared Filesystems for SAP Smart Assist

When using PHA SAP Smart Assist it is required to use NFS 4.It would be very helpful to have an option to use NFS 3 or ISS (GPFS) instead.
over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

NVMeOF support in PowerHA

Fibre Channel (FC)-Nonvolatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics (NVMeoF) protocol in the PowerVM N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) stack (NVMeoF) offers a significant boost in performance and efficiency. AIX on Power Systems, supports NVMe over Fi...
about 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

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