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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Hardware Management Console

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    LDAP configuration in HMC poses a security risk with "Bind Password"

    When configuring LDAP on the HMC console, you are required to enter the 'Bind Password'. This password is masked with dots instead of characters, but there is a button next to the password field that allows you to reveal it.From a security perspec...
    3 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Enable multiple OUs on CSRs coming from the HMC

    Most PKIs are structured hierarchially with more than one OU, in our case it is not possible to sign a Certificate Request with only one OU via our internal PKI. Also: Self signed certificates will increasingly be banned in the future - which is a...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Different time zones for the HMC

    Small manufacturing customers very often use onre single Power System for their ERP infrasturcure, but they may have several LPARs for their subsidaries in Asia, Europe and Americas. These regions have different time zones, but the HMC has only on...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    REST API Certificate Automation

    This is useful to customers looking to automate the renewals for HMC certificates.
    about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

    Return previous functionality to virtual storage management via top level server to allow changes to client vFC and fcs ports.

    If a VIOS fcs port fails or becomes unreliable there is no means to move the existing client vFC (WWPN) to a different fcs via the GUI. This capability was available in a previous release - along with the ability to create RO virtual media in the ...
    about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

    Allow scheduled tasks in HMC schedule management to be edited

    When you have created a scheduled Task like "backup profile data" or "backup HMC data" it os only possible to view or delete the Task. So if you want to Change the schedule to a new time oder date, you have to delete and receate the Task. It would...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

    HMC Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode

    HMC should have a Patch Management: Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode. IBM should provide a easy way for Patch Management. System Firmware and Adapter microcode report in one tool (something Microcode Discovery tool...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 13 Planned for future release
    132 VOTE

    Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

    Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

    HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted
    144 VOTE

    Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

    When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

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