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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    ENDFLASH to not write changes on VRYOFF

    Problem description: We create flash partitions for temporary use and on the ENDFLASH we are just going to do another STRFLASH to refresh the data. No need to keep it. The writing changes to disk on the Vary Off is taking anywhere from 5-20 minute...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 4 Not under consideration

    Support direct attached fibre tape - power 10

    Many existing Power customers have direct attached fibre tape drives/libraries and VTL’s. Not having a supported adapter, on scale out p10, is a big problem. Requiring a fibre switch is both cost prohibitive and creates a support issue (no in-hous...
    over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

    Replicate save status and last save information across nodes in PowerHa Cluster.

    In a PowerHA cluster, if I perform a save operation (to a tape drive) in a FlashCopy system that information is not spread among other systems in cluster specially production (main) system. This cause some objects that must be saved before delete ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Not under consideration

    New Product of Data Processing Unit DPU based on IBM Power 11 (or later Power processors) with Nvidia GPUs for the future Applications

    Building a new product of IBM and Nvidia Data Processing Unit, the suggested DPU may have the following description and capabilities: 1- Using IBM Power 11 instead of Intel Xeon or ARM will make the software licenses and the cyber security more ad...
    over 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    Evaluate if Nutanix on Power Systems is valid (again) with new workloads

    Nutainx runs quite many areas inside companies, like VDI but also databases and plain app-vms. In this scenario also offering Power Systems as HW nodes might make the usage of Power Systems easier for customers to implement/use for Linux and AIX.
    over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic failover notification

    When ending the primary node in a 5250 session by default an automatic failover as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=clusters-managing-failover-outage-events.There are ways to change this behavior, the Smart Assist Tool prov...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

    We suggest new Product of Nvidia DGX based on IBM Power11 or later processors with Nvidia GPUs based on CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

    The future High performance Computing can be either Centralized (Cloud) or Distributed or Hybrid, therefore we need to take into consideration the Quantum Safe Cryptography, IBM Power 11 or later Power processors have this capability, also it will...
    over 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    Primeval Quantum C.P.U Desk Top Device's, made for 2025-2029 sales With 5D Data Storage Ultra Inferred Laser Imprint Information Superman Theory with up to 500 Terabytes

    Eccentric Process Unit Of Information To Process into Quantum, Computing For Home Desk Top Use, with water cell's closed off, by the layering into the Network of the said ideal called Primeval , Done by laser imprinted information done In (Yellow ...
    over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Virtual Hierarchical Switching Fabric

    CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between the next version Power System ( may be IBM Power 11 or Later ) and Exa scale AI Data Centers based ...
    almost 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

    Adding Compute Express Link CXL Interconnection, CXL 3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL 4.0 based on PCIe7

    CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
    almost 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

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