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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    CMC alerting into e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, etc. .

    CMC notifies customers by e-mail. However, most customers use a central monitoring application such as Nagios, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, etc.. CMC alerts should also be sent to the customer's monitoring application. Which the IT-Operations team is mo...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Submitted

    5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

    There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
    4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Submitted

    diagcloudconn needs more robust features in testing.

    Many times when trying to diagnose an issue between HMC and CMC we are forced to engage IBM support to get access to such common commands as curl or wget or traceroute as they are locked down in the HMC. It is incredibly helpful to either allow ac...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

    BRMS ICC backup to AWS Cloud only allows US East region for storing data

    Please see PMR Case number TS016529098. We are looking to use BRMS to send backup data to an S3 bucket at AWS. By default it is directing to AWS US East region and we are told there is no option to send data to another region. We faced issues with...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

    Do not see throttled machine(s) in the CMC GUI and got no SMS / Mail about Throttling

    Hi by accident we see in our environment one E1080 throttled...i see this at the HMC but o don't see any message, Graphical hint or whatever in the CMC. So i want to see when login to CMC an alter about throttling and want to receive SMS , Mail if...
    almost 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Allow 5733-ICC APIs to be thread safe.

    Any one who wanted to use the Cloud APIs in a threaded environment.
    4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

    CMC simulation for Power11 based on the existing real life data

    My idea is to provide a simulated workload on the next Power generation, either in the HMC or in the CMC. IBM could show customers a picture of "what are my savings if I invest in the latest Power generation": * would I save cores? How much? * wou...
    11 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

    It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
    11 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

    Granular API Token Management in CMC

    The current IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) API token system provides limited control over access permissions. We propose enhancing the token management capabilities to provide greater flexibility and security: Multiple API Tokens: Allow users ...
    9 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Retrieving Events/Alerts in CMC from API

    Currently, the IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) provides notifications of events and alerts only via email and SMS. This limits the ability to integrate CMC with other monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems. We propose adding a RESTful AP...
    9 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

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