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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    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...
    3 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    for the call home facility of the HMC, allow an addition of a certificate for proxy use

    there is ability to add a proxy for access to the internet, however it is necessary to add a certificate for that call home connection to be encrypted, such that the proxy server can decrpyt priro to making the connection to essuport.ibm.com
    6 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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...
    9 days ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    HMC tab replacement for QLZARCAPI

    When licensing software for an LPAR of IBM i we are often asked to do the following on that LPAR: CALL QCMD CALL QLZARCAPI This generates a screen like the following attachment This is tough to do on an lpar that we’ve not restored the OS on to ye...
    11 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    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...
    24 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Manage Virtual Storage new GUI

    The feature of re-map virtual fibre channel removed on the new hmc V10 R3, I think this feature is very important in the troubleshooting and physical port failure scenarios. in other words if there is a port failure from Power side , from storage ...
    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 ...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

    Uptime of HMC BMC console

    Hello, In some cases, with multi administrator's environment it will be good to know how long is HMC's system console up and running and if it was rebooted.I insert screenshot where this could be added and visible, maybe in part Host's identificat...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Functionality already exists

    REST API Certificate Automation

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

    Create SAN Zones from HMC (or from VIOS) for vFC-Client-LPARs

    Using PeerZones simplifies Zoning and provides a base that can easily be expanded.Once the principals are prepared, it is easy to add new clients. This could also be extended to the storage system configuration for each host. HMC is in a pivotal p...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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