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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Hardware Management Console

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...
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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...
13 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Operating System Level automatic refresh in HMC Gui

Because every time we update AIX lpars to a newer level, there is a difference on the HMC. The HMC still reflects the AIX version prior to the AIX update. So we need to update the HMC information manually everytime with osrefresh hmc command param...
25 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

make IBMi ACS console connection faster

This one would be useful for all IBMi customer using HMC as console. When you start a console on IBMi. You need to use IBM ACS. From that software you contact the HMC to create console. Contact the HMC is fast. Then you get the list of servers you...
26 days 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 ...
28 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted