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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    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...
    2 days 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.
    9 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Approve hscroot edit access to /etc/hosts (cli or UI) for demo landscape where DNS is not implemented

    In demo landscape edit of /etc/hosts for local addresses would beneficial (and other public addresses are resolved via DNS servers).Quick demos or smaller pocs, it would be nice to not handle DNS entries and just edit /etc/hosts.
    about 3 hours ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    PowerVC Appliance - add support for scheduling tasks

    Clients using the PowerVC Appliance would like to be able to schedule tasks as would be done on an open OS system via Cron, PowerVC appliance 2.3.2 has no scheduler
    about 6 hours ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    When updating uiagents I would like to specify my own directory

    More flexible to use repo-server/directory then use the static root-placed /etc/security/... Also it would be beneficial for the uiagents update, included in package such as PSC_2.3.0.4.tar to be already from start in one location, saves some time...
    about 10 hours ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

    Improve FOR-EACH to also have the name associated with the constant

    Using Enums in RPG improves the final quality of programs because it translates symbolic names into values, thus avoiding the need to use unnamed constant values. Using For-each, we can access the values ​​of the constants in an Enum definition. I...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

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

    Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

    As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
    3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 34 Under review

    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...
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    Add support for signed certificate installation for PowerVC Appliance

    PowerVC customers need to provide a signed certificate for accessing PowerVC UI, PowerVC Appliance does not provide a feature to import the customer signed certificates This can be manually circumvented by engaging support to PESH to install, howe...
    14 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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