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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    To be able to specify a preferred node and site when deploying to a SVC stretch cluster

    When deploying a VM by PowerVC on an SVC stretch Cluster the volumes are created with a preferred node ID one on site A and one on site B in a round robin fashion. So the VM running on a host in site A has half it's disk with a preferred node on t...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Powervc should warn the administrator about disruptive operations

    In some cases powervc can initiate a disruptive change when performing a seemingly non invasive operation, such as adding a new volume. It performs the change in the background that can cause an outage of the VM, for example when zonemanager decid...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add tags found in HMC frame and LPARs to PowerVC

    By allowing PowerVC to utilize the tags created in the HMC it would provide a consistent tag "naming" standard across the two products and save time.
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Enable checking of currently active users

    When PowerVC maintenance is being performed (stop/start/upgrade) it would be useful to be able to check if there were any active UI sessions.Ideally we could run a CLI command to list users in a particular project or all projects
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Allow service program AND SQL based APIs under the same web server

    Currently, when deploying a new service on a Web Services Server, you have to select between ILE program object as a Web service or SQL as a Web service, and then specify the resource...i.e. URI path template. The URI path name becomes the Service...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    Make mod_wsgi availble on the IBM i HTTP server

    IBM i HTTP Server would be able to be used by any open source project that requires wsgi web server.Since this is a module already available in the Apache HTTP server product this would greatly enhance the adoption of Python web projects served on...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    Define alias on Cisco SAN switches for VFC WWPNs

    During a customer session we found out, that the Cisco SAN switch driver doesn't create aliases for the VFC WWPNs. The actual zones are looking like this:zone name powervc_lparname_e5475390_00000003_c0507608ef490258 vsan 99 pwwn <SVC WWPN1> ...
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Allow more or better control of users within embedded databases installed with PowerVC

    We have a requirement to demonstrate control of all users. While we have a good handle on that generally, questions have been raised regarding the DB users within the embedded MariaDB and MongoDB implementations under PowerVC. So we would like to ...
    10 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    “Bring your own web server” to support other webservers rather than Apache httpd only

    “Bring your own web server” to support other webservers rather than Apache httpd only Some companies don't allow httpd
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Ping IPs before deployment

    During a deployment of a new VM, PowerVC checks if the IP is already used by looking into its database. If an IP is free according to the DB, but is already in use, PowerVC will deploy this IP. These leads to IP address conflicts. This may happen,...
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

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