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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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    If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log.

    If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log. So, if there are no log entries the clavan cmd says "clavan: Not able to analyze application availability because both th...
    about 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    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

    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

    PowerHA make use of the SVC tiebreaker information

    For SVC Stretched Cluster based PowerHA implementation. For split-brain situations, it would be very helpful if PowerHA would be able read the decision made by the underlying SVC cluster.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Not under consideration

    Add a PowerHA smart Assist component for IBM InfoSphere DataStage app

    Our team uses PowerHA SystemMirror for our IBM InfoSphere DataStage application. However, PowerHA SystemMirror doesn't have a smart assist components for this product.
    over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

    Improve PowerHA SVC/FlashSystem ssh access security model

    Today PowerHA requires unrestricted the Admin role via SSH to manage the copy relationships on SVC/FlashSystem family storage. In todays modern security environment this is unacceptable to have a full multitenant array have unrestricted SSH access...
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    Cloud Storage Solutions for i 5733ICC - Multi-threaded downloads

    I've configured the mutil-threaded uploads for this product and it made a significant improvement to the upload times. It would be beneficial to be able to do this for the downloads.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    PowerHA cl_extendvg

    Today if you extend a cluster VG through smit hacmp or by command cl_extendvg the disk will be added even it is used already on another system.In non PowerHA environments (extendvg) this is avoided and you would have to force the command. In Power...
    over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    PowerHA SMUI support of ECDSA keys

    Current SMUI is using 8+ years old SSH libraries which do support only RSA keys. More modern keys like ECDSA are supported by used libraries for about 4 years. I do not understand why modern UI is relying on ancient libraries and does not allow us...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    Please allow Tape Image Catalogs to be mounted over NFS

    Please allow Tape Image Catalogs to be simply mounted over NFS. i.e. I have an external big storage, it exposes a volume, IBMi mounts it on IFS and then a tape image catalog (usable with a virtual tape) is directly mapped over it. use case: someti...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Future consideration

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