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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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Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

make simplified remote restart fully disaster recovery capable

When employing simplified remote restart, one requisite to restart an LPAR on another machine is that all SAN paths and targets (e.g. LUNs) have to be available on target VIO servers. During a disaster recovery scenario, this is not the case; in a...
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

Return previous functionality to manage rw / read-only on virtual media library iso's from the GUI.

HMC users managing the virtual media library from the GUI were impacted when this functionality was removed.
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems.

HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems. This enhancement will provide a customer with the current status of the flex capacity utilization, which will make managing and decision making of moving capacity...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Display command for a GUI task

The HMC should have the possibility to show the CLI command for a task that is executed over the GUI. For example the start of a VM should return "chsysstate -r lpar .....". Such a functionality is implemented in AIX SMIT using the F6 key. This wo...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

Need a way to track rejected relays in SMTP relay server on IBM i

We just converted our SMTP server from *SDD directory type to *SMTP. The LPAR is being used as an SMTP relay for other IBM i LPARs and related hardware. Previously, I could query the QZMF journal and look for "REJECTED RELAY" and see if a server t...
4 months ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

HMC power supply display

Create an option to view the actual status of a POWER supply. Currently, it's impossible to verify their status.
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

Make group tags on HMC accessible via the CLI

In the HMC, there's an option to create and list group tags. This is only available in the HMC browser. It would be good to include the tags in the output of the lssyscfg -r lpar command. These tags should also be able to be set using the chhsyscf...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted