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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Core OS

Removal of 4-Core Limit for IBM-i VMs on the S1022 / S1122

Description: As a forward-thinking organization leveraging IBM-i on the S1022 / S1122 server, we are consistently seeking ways to enhance performance, optimize resource utilization, and meet our increasing workload demands. In light of this, we su...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing Under review
310 VOTE

*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Not under consideration

fsck progress tracker

Customer would like to have fsck progress tracker which would be useful to check how far fsck is porgressed. This is mainly helpful for large size FS>
20 days ago in AIX Submitted

Add support for USB devices >256GB

As LTO Drives and media getting larger (and more expensive) it is not longer suitable for a daily backup on small environments. So a lot of customers use USB thumbdrives, but these are only supported up to 256GB Please add support (and test) for l...
8 months ago in IBM i / Hardware Under review
132 VOTE

Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

Send IAS03E2 message to QSYSOPR (FSFC)

If error IAS03E2 "Unexpected error occurred on SVC or HMC interface" happens while a CSEDTA is running, FSFC is logging a command error but not declaring the process as failed. If this happens shortly after STRFSFLASH command is given, this will r...
3 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Provide a tool Admins can use to review PTF cover letters for Special and Activation Instructions

Currently there is no tool available to assist Admins when reviewing PTF cover letters prior to loading and installing PTF's. This would be helpful as there are thousands of PTF's in a typical deployment. It is impossible to review each cover lett...
6 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service Future consideration

Enhance Volume Group "AUTO SYNC" feature to bring a temporarily missing (and now available again) disk back to active and start automatic sync

Dear IBM Ideas team, "chvg" command option "-s" offers the posibility to start "automatic synchronization of stale partitions" for mirrored logical volumes.Apparently the code does not provide to bring a missing disk back to active, so the automat...
21 days ago in AIX Submitted

In RUN SQL Scripts enable common font resizing methods

Although Run SQL Scripts does support font resizing, the controls are difficult to access quickly and do not align with common or expected methods for changing font size. This slows me down, particularly when sharing my screen during conference ca...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

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