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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Hardware Management Console

make it possible to use regular expressions in HMC systems-view-panel search

the HMC systems-view search is very helpful when working with a bigger number of sytems/LPARs/VIOS connected/managed to HMC.with the search you can reduce the view to the sytems/LPARs/VIOs you are planning to work with.this helps to speed up work ...
5 days ago in Hardware Management Console 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.
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 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...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Upgrade OpenSSH on HMC to a version which will pass scanning services.

Security issue. Scanning services flag Env:HMC v11 r1 m1111 because of the following: Qualys id (QID): 38999 Title: OpenSSH ssh Function Vulnerability (CVE-2025-61984) Solution: Customers are advised to upgrade to OpenSSH 10.1p1 (https://www.opens...
20 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

REST API Certificate Automation

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

Generic virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) support on KVM on any other host OS

Some clients moving away from VMware and going in direction KVM from Proxmox, AHV from Nutanix or others (e.g. Platform9). The current support for the virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) is limited to Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) on U...
13 days ago in Hardware Management Console 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 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...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Allow the use of FQDNs for ntp service "allow by" definition

In version 11 of the HMC GUI, when configuring the use of ntp services, the options are Deny, Allow All and Allow by IP address. NIST strongly recommends NOT hard coding the IP address when defining the ntp server. They strongly recommend the use ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted