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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    Rust language that has become an essential language for UNIX based products. Many IBMi & AIX companies should have the ability to compile Rust on IBM i PASE and on AIX.

    IBM is distributing the ClamAV open source antivirus as part of the AIX but ClamAV has a new release that is based on Rust (software language). Rust has become an essential language for UNIX based products. So many IBMi & AIX companies should ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 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

    Reinstatement of 'sed' in HMC v10

    Hi , We urge the reinstatement of the 'sed' command in the next patch for HMC v10. Its removal (PTF MF71298 and MF71299) has critically impacted the functionality of numerous scripts, including ezh (Brian Smith) and eezh (Matthew Opoka). Additiona...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

    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

    Capacity/Performance Management

    HMC should provide the same detail level and functionality like lpar2rrd in point of Capacity and Performance management.
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 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

    Ansible Collection ibm.power_hmc: Secrets from environment variables, extra_vars and AWX/AAP secrets

    Dear IBM team, the Ansible Collection ibm.power_hmc lacks a secure way to provide secrets at the moment. Could you please add native support for secrets lookup from environment variables, Ansible extra_vars and AWX/AAP secrets? This makes the usag...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

    add cli/REST path/command to allow a) creation of tag b) removal of tag against resource and c) querying of resources tags (which tags are assigned) - perhaps field in lssyscfg

    HMC GUI 10 provides 'tags' to allow functional grouping of systems and instance/lpars however these are not exposed as query able through REST or cli commands to allow management tools to make decisions / use the same tags
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    1040 dashboard improvement: Resource summary : partitions deactivated instead of warning

    1040 dashboard design changed required to improve user experience: under Resource summary ; remove deactivated partitions from the warning counter. Or even better let the deactivated partions have a unique counter: i.e. "inactive".
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Automate pedbg and VIO snap from HMC

    Automate creation and upload of pedbg and VIO snap from HMC via UI to optimize IBM SR handling.
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

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