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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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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    adding python packages in ACL list

    In order to demonstrate to customers that iSeries systems are usable in multiple environments, I developed in RPGLE some applications that use python packages to generate excel formats (xlsx), to read/write information to different databases or to...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

    Provide LDAP Capability for ASMI

    Provide ability for ASMI to integrate with LDAP/Active Directory for user / group authentication
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Add IceWM to the IBM i YUM repository

    IceWM is a lightweight Windows Manager , ideal for VNC Use Case: With IceWM+VNC we could create a small footprint environment where we could run a small desktop with iACS, Firefox and some other IBM i tools, like a Terminal Server
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

    Multiple Shared Processor Pools for each Logical Partition

    Shared Processor Pools are useful for limiting the total CPU usage of a group of partitions. Partitions can be grouped by type (production and test for example), by customer, or to take advantage of subcapacity licensing.Difficulties arise when a ...
    almost 9 years ago in PowerVM 2 Not under consideration

    Revamp Open Source installs

    Currently the installation of open source (Node.js) has two very unfortunate consequences. 1 - I have to IPL my machine. 2 - It wipes out previous version (i.e. 0.12.12 will be wiped out by 0.12.13 of Node.js) This makes it very laborious and risk...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 Not under consideration

    Develop health check procedure to automate validation SEA and switch VLAN trunk configuration matches

    Using VLANs on Power Systems usually comes with Virtual Ethernet Adapters bridged to hypervisor switch and SEA Failover/Sharing setup.The maximum configuration can be 16 Virtual Ethernet Adapters and maximum 20 VLANS + PVID / SEA, so 336 VLANs in ...
    about 8 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    LPM Fails On Systems With Non-Functional Physical Adapter Ports

    When attempting to use Live Partition Mobility (LPM) to move a logical partition (LPAR) from one system to another, source partition virtual to physical connectivity is first validated before executing the migration. Unfortunately, this negates th...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Add Mozilla Firefox to YUM repository on IBM i

    With Firefox browser we could browse pages from IBM i Use Case: I think it's really useful on an environment with VNC or X11, so we could install some programs requiring some browsing for features selection.
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

    Be sure a CPU a device is attached to is present in the LPAR

    When a device is attached to a LPAR, there is no guarantee that the CPU this device is attached to will be part of the LPAR. This leads to device with no specific numa node, confusing script managing irqbalancing like the Mellanox one and probably...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    UAK Longer validated period

    We want to have UAK validated period extended to 1 year at least. Currently implemented period of 180 days is considered too short. When system attention lamp turns on at UAK expiration, customers are forced to take reactive actions to decide if a...
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM 2 Not under consideration

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