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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    Add option to set IBM i Console Type in ASMI

    Allow the IBM i Console type to be viewed and updated in the Advanced Service Management Interface (ASMI) on a POWER server. If viewing or changing to the Ops Console type, allow the selection of the Ethernet Adapter (NIC) location from the candid...
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Future consideration

    Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

    At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    SRVAUTE replication administrative domain

    When you replicate a user profile in an administrative domain at the moment SRVAUTE are not under replication. This could be a big problem for all applications that are using this os feature. So, at the moment the only way possible to replicate th...
    10 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

    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

    Dynamically raise maximum virtual slot numbers

    Please add ability to raise maximum virtual slot numbers of VIO and client LPARs dynamically without need of LPAR restart.
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVM 2 Not under 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

    IBM should publish information how PowerVM is charged in Power Systems

    There has been confusion on how PowerVM is charged and it causes customers to pay more than they should.
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Functionality already exists

    PowerVM to be able to override local optical devices when executing a LPM/ SRR

    LPM and SRR can't function when a LPAR has a VTOPT# device
    about 8 years ago in PowerVM 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

    certificate request file from ASMI interface should include Subject Alternative Name (SAN) to support modern web browsers

    Currenty the certificate signing reqeust file (*csr) exported from the POWER flexible service processor interface ASMI does not include a Subject Alternative Name (SAN). As result modern web browsers, like Microsoft Edge or Chrome with strict secu...
    about 4 years ago in PowerVM 0 Future consideration

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