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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

    If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    User friendly logging of any change activity on HMC for LPAR and Power Server itself

    Would like to have a recording of activities like change,add,remove things for LPAR and/or Power Server in the HMC. The task window is not enough and shows only minimal change information.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    CLI option to switch on/off HMC performance data collection

    we need an CLI option to switch on/off/configure HMC performance data collection feature to integrate in system-automation (eg. Ansible).
    8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    HMC nmon

    HMC nmon implementation or enhancement of monhmc
    almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Awarness of multiple HMC's in the GUI (arbitration)

    There is currently no ability to see the HMC arbitration status in the GUI. When deploying redundant HMC's that manages the same system(s) it would be good to see the status of both the primary and secondary HMC in terms of their role so the user ...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    HMC automated installation

    It's possible to have option for fully automated installation physical HMC and virtual HMC ? This is time consuming in case IBM support request as part of solution reinstallation of HMC code and restore configuration from backup. It will simplify ...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Other implementation of IBM HMC grafical vterm needed because Java webstart is deprecated

    The graphical implementation of the HMC vterm requires Java webstart (*.jnlp). Java webstart is deprecated by current releases of OpenJDK en Oracle Java, IBM should use a different implementation for the graphical vterm of the HMC, based on common...
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Need maintenance mode switch for Power Server at HMC

    When doing installation of new Power Server or HW Maintenance or FW Updates etc. it happens very often that the HMC is producing a call home to IBM. This is very true when installing a new power Server and HMC are connected to FSP /eBMC. But these...
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

    HMC virtual console, increase the terminal windows rows

    When doing installations and I want to save the output, todays virtual console is not saving enough rows.In normal situations one of course use a terminal session to the virtual server but when working with network or as an active work viosupgrade...
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    New IBM i Service for SMTP

    I would like an IBM i Service to view and manage the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) on IBM i. Ideally this service would not only allow a user to view and or modify the configuration of SMTP but also to view the Email History stored within t...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 10 Not under consideration

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