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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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Hardware Management Console

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HMC REST API: add endpoint to get Power system CoD

Add an endpoint to the HMC REST API to get CoD data like it can be done from HMC CLI by the command: lscod -m {Power_System_name} -t bill -r mem of course also for CPU: -r proc and with flag: -F activated_onoff_resources
3 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Create HMC JSON api

I'm wondering if it's possible to create new HMC's API working with JSON and not with XML. Other appliances (for example Storwize) are using this language for rest APIs.
12 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Certified Port 9920 - possibility to change the date of creation and end of validity

The ability to recreate a certificate with a start date and an end date. Actully you can only change the end date and there is no possibility to change the creation date.
25 days ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Under review

Add a tree view option to the Systems page.

It would be useful to see which partitions were on which physical machine/serial number in one view. Older versions of the HMC had this view and it would be nice if V10 had it without having to switch to the old dashboard.
25 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add Preview option on HMC Update before committing to the update

The current HMC V10R3.1060.3 does NOT allow for a Preview/confirmation when starting an HMC Update task. The user enters the HMC iso file location/user credentials and then offers only the "Next" command to begin the upgrade without confirmation o...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Support vHMC on Hyper-v

Many customers are using vmware, but with new license/broadcom challenges then other hypervisors are asked for. Smaller sites dont have a separate Power systems (or 2) to use for the vHMC so they are forced to either purchase the CR2 (best choice ...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

be able to send authlog to an external server

We need authlog from the hmc sent to an external server (a clm for example) In the rsyslog config on the hmc, their is a config to send them to /var/hsc/log/secure : cat /etc/rsyslog.d/50-hmc-auth.conf => auth.* /var/hsc/log/secure & sto...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enhance the 5250 console support provided by the HMC (remote) to support 132-column display.

For a limited function IBM i LPAR (such as an FSFC target) where, for security reasons the only advisable interactive connection is via an HMC console, having a 132 column screen would provide an immeasurable benefit in viewing 132 position spoole...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC delivering CPU detail through CLI, REST API

Key points:- Operational Efficiency: Direct access to CPU speed via HMC (CLI/REST API) eliminates the need for agents on client LPARs, simplifying workflows and reducing operational overhead.- Resource Optimization: Bypassing agents frees up LPAR ...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted