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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    In powerVM,the transmit speed of the virtual ethernet adapter is too low ,which is usting the 10GB physical adapter

    Dear IBM， we encounter a performance issue in VIOS and VIOC.we found we have nothing to do to improve the virtual network adapter transmit speed,based on the 10GB physical adapter.BUT in our datacenter ,there is 140+ 780 &880 facing the same i...
    about 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    VIOS 3.1 VIOC iSCSI rootvg and datavg

    Following a request from a customer about VIOS 3.1 and iSCSI support.https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/9223-22H/p9hb1/p9hb1_vios_concepts_iscsi.htmThis webpage is confusing when "limitations" paragraph is read:--Currently, the iSCSI disk...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    chdef should be able to set queue_depth defaults for iscsi non-mpio disks.

    We use ISCSI disks and do not have multi path storage available to us, so we would need to set the queue_depth for all newly created iscsi disks. However, we have to use chdev to accomplish this manually for each disk instead of just setting the d...
    7 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    updateios failure during window closure

    You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS008403859Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.2.10 on top of his system 3.1.1.25 .During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to VPN discon...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images"

    Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" #####################################mkrep -sp rootvg -size 20Gls -l /fix/AIX_v7.2_Base_Install_DVD_1_of_2_TL_7200-01-01.1...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

    PVLAN support for PowerVM

    Currently PowerVM only accepts PVLANs by forcing VEPA on its vswitch and private-vlan host mode set on the external switch port (1 primary VLAN, 1 secondary PVLAN). (as described in this IBM developerworks link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/...
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

    Job reference missing in spoolfile

    When working with JVM's on IBM the function Print GC Tables, produces a spoolfile in which no reference to the job it is derived from is present. This makes analyses very complicated. Use Case: When using the command WRKJVMJOB and option 9 offers ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Planned for future release

    After VIOS complete boot to trigger any IBM i VMs to start

    We could not find a mechanism to start IBM i VMs after VIOS complete IPL. This is necessary for unattended operations in case of power failure or a complete reboot of the hardware is required. VIOS starts automatically after the hardware is starte...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Needs more information

    updateios breaks the update due to network disruption

    You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS011570960Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.4.10 on top of his system 3.1.3.14.During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to network dis...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    GraalVM

    With the new upcoming version 11 of Java and beyond, the "classic" script engines of JavaScript and Python will be discontinued. Nashor and Jython will disappear in favor of running Java, Python, JavaScript, and more on the common VM - the GraalVM...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Not under consideration

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