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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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    MVP for PowerVM VIOS

    Today, IBM supply ISO images for the target PowerVM VIOS levels via entitled software distribution channel. However considering the overall security and audit posture for the clients ,can IBM look at providing a 'slimmer' VIOS image that only cont...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

    CHGCNTINF or WRKCNTINF: Add mailing vs site address

    Neither of our data centers get US Mail. All mail goes to corporate. Therefore onWRKCNTINF2. Work with local service informationI would like to have two addresses:- Mailing address- Physical site location. Use Case: When a box calls in for support...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 4 Future consideration

    Get the lpar name instead of lpar id on lsmap -vadapter output

    The only way I have to get the lpar name to which a vhost is connected to is to get it in the HMC. On my clients HMC access is restricted to the NIMs and not available on the VIOS. So I am unable to write a script that get's all the mappings for a...
    5 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Create a list of PTFs when applying a CUM that need to be reviewed even when doing a *DELAYED apply.

    Currently I was guided to https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sf99730-730-special-instruction-links-level-21245 for review of special instructions for PTFs. Unfortunately the majority in the list have no value when applying delayed. I have to review...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under consideration

    SNDPTFORD returns "error" when all PTF in a group are current

    When using SNDPTFORD to download a group e.g. SF99741, after checking all installed PTF, system reports CPF8C24 with severity 40 and "Error occured while processing request" - but all PTF in this group already are installed. Use Case: This is a "n...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 6 Not under consideration

    SSP copy volume from one cluster to another

    I'm using 2 SSP clusters and I would like to have all my images volume available on both without need to re-install them from ISO. Actually a workaround exist creating free volume "dd" the first vol to /tmp, ftp this guy to other vios, and "dd" ba...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Down loading CUM and Group PTF .bin files from IBM Fix Central site

    Create the ability to independent and configurable FTP keepalives for data and control sessions Use Case: TS006868699
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Not under consideration

    powerVM SSP check ability to resolve all nodes before expell them

    When a new node is added to a PowerVM_SSP cluster, all other nodes receive this information. But if this new node is not able to be resolved, existing nodes are expelled from the cluster.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Warning when reach the 16 nodes limit in SSP cluster

    There is a limit of 16 nodes in a SSP cluster, but you can add a 17th without any warning message. I think it would be better to be informed.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Repository Search PTF Currency

    There's multiple options to check your PTF currency against IBM's recommended PTF's. In order to do so you have to have some kind of connection path to the outside world which we don't have. It would be so much easier if we coudl somehow get this ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

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