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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    Delete/Drop VM without deleting/dropping any LUN/Volume

    Today, when I delete a VM, I have to choose at least one boot volume to delete. I would like to have the option of deleting a VM while keeping ALL of its volumes in storage, just the volumes. The other settings, such as storage host, SAN zoning, V...
    about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC - LPM support of specific VLAN's managed out of the SEA

    PowerVC support of LPM on PowerHA nodes partitions where the specific VLAN 3358 are not managed on the SEA (case TS002261609).
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add support for Amazon private cloud to Cloud Storage Solutions for i.

    IBM Cloud Storage solutions currently only supports Amazon public cloud. I would like to see Amazon private clouds enabled. Use Case: This would be used by customers who have an Amazon private cloud.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Future consideration

    Hosted IBM i PWRDWNSYS integration missing

    When you have on an IBM i system a guest partition running IBM i, the vary on can start the partition. The vary off does not power down the partition in an orderly manner. When you run hosted Linux or AIX a vary of will shut the partition down in ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 5 Future consideration

    Power Enterprise pool : adding/removing mobile resources manually without using HMC

    Please add Power Enterprise pool support for novalink managed hosts on PowerVC ! It is supported, but only through DRO.
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Eliminate use of SUDO for root user

    Currently, the powervc-diag utility requires that the user root be configured to use sudo. This creates a security issue that violates the customer security standards and frankly, the root user should never need sudo. Disabling root from using sud...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Add option in Storage Template to define Mirror Sync Rate for Storvize products

    Since a couple of PowerVC versions we are able to define the Flash Copy Rate in the Storage Template. If a customer wants to use vdisk mirror feature of Storvize products, the Mirror Sync Rate comes into place. It defines how "fast" the mirror is ...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Request for new feature in PowerVc

    When moving a host into maintenance mode and choosing to leave the VMs on the host, the Operator should be warned if there are any "in flight" operations on any VM on the host , Any LPAR deploy, LPAR resize or LPAR LPM, that might be in progress m...
    about 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Granular Roles definition for PowerVC local users

    Please implement a more granular role definition system for PowerVC local user accounts, for example; 'Snapshot Manager' Role that is able to Perform tasks like Snapshot Creation and Deletion, Read Volumes.
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i

    Using Windows FTP server as in house cloud solution Use Case: Customer has a huge FTP Server area based on Windows FTP Server. Like to use this as Cloud Storage for IBM i BRMS
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 5 Future consideration

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