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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    Add Network Tunnelling support via VXLAN or GRE for PowerVM

    PowerVM lacks of support for SDN solutions and only supports legacy vlan based layer 2 networks.Against this hypervisors under x86 supports network tunnelling technology. For example KVM supports VXLAN or GRE using OpenvSwitch. ESX supports VXLAN ...
    about 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

    QNTC + SMBv2

    From iseries I create excel files and write to shared windows folder for ftp access from suppliers.From iSeries I create EDI transport documents to be transmitted to customers through the EDI proprietary application. Now use SMBv1 (SMBv2 not avaia...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

    Auto pick Fiber Adapter in VIOS

    VMware- ESX server which automatically re-maps the virtual client adapters to different physical adapters when physical adapters have issues. This will help in automatically correct path problems on LPARs As of now, VIO does not have any such feat...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    support multibos under VIO

    Support of multibos under VIO.
    about 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

    WRKLNK unusual F17 "Starting with"

    The command WRKLNK works in one point different then other commands.When i use F17 i want to go to the start, when i use F18 i want to go to the end of the subfile.These function are hided behind F17.Could IBM change F17 to something else and put ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Not under consideration

    VIOS support for NPIV tape failover

    There is no VIOS support for NPIV tape failover due to the fact that the tape devices have no "I/O re-try" option. If VIOSA fails, all virtual tape drives have to be reconfigured and re-mapped manually in VIOSn, or pre-configured using different W...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

    PowerVM Shared Storage Pool support for Hitachi GAD devices

    Customer is moving to a module concept for datacentre and want to user PowerVC to manage without access to Switches and SAN - Shared storage pools is the perfect solution, but needs to be able to support the Hitachi GAD concept (Hyperswap) with LU...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

    Add Ethernet adapter e4148a1614109304 to AIX ARTEX catalog (for use with VIOS rules)

    See IBM Support Case Number TS003577743 Unable to add VIOS rules for adapterPCIe2 4-Port Adapter (10GbE SFP+) (e4148a1614109304) lsdev -F "name:class/subclass/type" -l ent0ent0:adapter/pciex/e41457162004000 $ rules -o add -t adapter/pciex/e4145716...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Would like greater visibility for vNode Pool stress and IFS seize/contention

    Worked with IBM to troubleshoot an IFS performance issue that grew slowly but then caused production issues for a couple of weeks. The problem was ultimately found to be use of an old API SYSTOOLS.httpGetClob() that spawns a Java JVM for every cal...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Not under consideration

    Command or tool to find objects inside the IFS

    It would be very helpful and useful to have a command or tool to search for objects in the IFS directory structure, by name, by date, by extension, and other criteria.Something like WRKOBJ OBJ(*ALL/P*) for example.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

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