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

    Email notification of HMC dashboard

    We need email notification of the HMC whole dashboard which includes all the errors and warnings part once in a day or if there is any alert.
    about 20 hours ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    add CLI option to GUI-feature : "Schedule-management" jobs

    setting up "Schedule-management" jobs is currently a GUI-only feature. (V11R1M1111) add a CLI functionality to this feature. and a clear logging/messaging for active or expired schedule jobs.
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

    upgrade HMC service-management-panel - dump-panel - to add IBM-support-case-no when calling-home a dump

    It will ease up work with HMC-GUI to have an option to add the IBM-Support-case-no. to a dump-file when choosing " call-home dump ". This will give IBM-ECUREP the feature to right place the uploaded dump-file to the correct IBM-support-case unless...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    Add option in "installios" for VIOS maintenance boot

    Booting to maintenance mode becomes critical in situations where the VIOS is unable to boot, and the process requires using an image from a NIM server or physical media which becomes an obstacle to recovery and often ends up reinstalling the VIOS ...
    10 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    REST API Certificate Automation

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

    trim (leading and trailing) blanks from input in HMC search fields

    Currently the 'Partitions' or 'Systems' search field filters for an exact match in the HMC Web GUI.As a consequence leading or trailing blanks do matter, but are hard to spot visually. 'LPAR1' works as expected.' LPAR1' or 'LPAR1 ' would not retur...
    4 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...
    6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Create serviceable events support for all Power Systems not only Power 11

    ich beziehe mich auf die kürzlich veröffentlichte Funktion zur Erstellung von Service-Cases direkt über das HMC-Interface. Diese Neuerung ist ein hervorragender Schritt, um die Fehlerbehebungszeiten zu verkürzen und den Prozess der Datensammlung z...
    about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Add Group-Tags in dynamic inventory in powervm_inventory

    Hello, Grouptags are a cool feature in the HMC GUI. Unfortunately, they are no longer available via the CLI. -> https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-554 It would be great to have this feature in the dynamic HMC Ansible inventory ...
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Perform integrity check of VIOS Fix Packs on install and/or transfer to HMC

    During a recent VIOS update, we downloaded a fix pack ISO using Fix Central and transferred it to the HMC. Turns out that the ISO was partially corrupted.It was the correct size, and was mountable in various operating systems.However, many files w...
    28 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

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