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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    Need to have an option to check SRIOV physical port MAC address when it is used in shared mode

    There should be an option to check SRIOV physical port MAC address when the adapter is used in shared mode. For now, HMC GUI list the physical port MAC address only if the frame is powered on with hardware discovery otherwise there is no way to fi...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Power HMC User Interface

    The browser interface to the Power HMC console has restrictions not clearly identified the various manuals, technotes, etc. For example, you cannot open a 5250 console session when using the browser interface. That option is dropped when the user ...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

    Encryption Hardware Acceleration for GNUTLS/libnettle

    The Samba project has away from home grown encryption and openssl to GNUTLS/libnettle in 2019 see https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2019/10/02/samba-and-gnutls/ With gnutls/libnettle in its current state, we can expect substantial performance penalty on...
    over 2 years ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Planned for future release

    HMC remore GUI

    Remote GUI to HMC tries to reach https://ibm.com. My browser has no internet access, so proxy ist sending status 403 to my browser. But Browser don't stops to trie to connect to IBM. Our Network team is not very amused about that.
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    PEP and any cross-site HMC management of systems in different locations

    We have had multiple customers that have requested a requirement of "knowing the address of the system" rather than that of the problem analyzing HMC. They need to identify the service address of the machine rather than the managing HMC so they kn...
    about 10 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

    Open software support calls from HMC

    HMC is used to manage power systems and have ability to create requests in Hardware Support.The Customer from mentioned PMR have request to have possibility to open PMRs in software support from HMC, not automatically but manualy as well
    about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Create Iso Admin only function from HMC

    Add the ability to just have the ability from the HMC interface to the VioServer to allow a user to manage Iso images add / delete them and assign them to partitions. Currently users with that capability can see all storage npiv, vscsi, disks, sto...
    about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    RFE to request bundling of Anti Virus into the hmc application or some other AV software, Preferably Crowdstrike AV

    Adding an Antivirus engine would enhance protecting against vulnerabilities; real time monitoring, all would benefit in todays cyber attack environment
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

    Ability to see a list of active LPARs before proceeding with a disruptive firmware upgrade from HMC

    GEICO recently upgraded firmware on a number of E850s. They accidentally upgraded a Production node during working hours instead of a Test Server. They would like HMC to give them a warning message about which LPARs are currently active on the ser...
    over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Enable LPAR automated remote restart from HMC with SRR

    We have upgraded our HMC to 8.6.0 version and we are trying to implement SRR, however there is not such an option to pre-define the source and target frame on the HMC and that would be a really nice feature ho have.
    almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Not under consideration

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