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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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Publish API(s) to perform the work done via CLI command powervc-edit-scg

For automation. And not needing elevated access to OSI.
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Fabric monitoring/visibility for PowerVC

Hello team, We have PowerVC 2.0.2 and during migration storage fabrics were replaced as well. Unfortunately without accounts for PowerVC. Once that was done PowerVC was blind for that, we tried:- create new LUN - it failed, without any notificatio...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Port mod_md to IBM i Apache

mod_md is an Apache module that integrates ACME/Let's Encrypt into Apache, enabling a single line per virtual host to enable automatic Let's Encrypt renewal and registration. Such ease of use and automation would fit well with IBM i's intended nic...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Not under consideration

Need to limit number of concurrent migration while entering host to maintenance mode

Currently when a host selecting for maintenance mode, it got 3 options - Active, all or none. We need to limit the concurrent migration number so that we don't exhaust the available resources. Preferably an option in the maintenance mode screen as...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

A way for PowerVC 2.0 to purge data out of logs by date/time and status.

A way to purge data from the logs in the PowerVC 2.0 GUI with a certain status for a specific date/time.
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

Possibility to configure the * ADMIN4 instance with SSL

Possibility to configure the * ADMIN4 instance with SSL volume_up Use Case: In GUI
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only

Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only. Use Case: Enabled HTTP Admin to connect to SSL host servers only.
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

PowerVC to provide the option to change the log directory locations to a different disk pool

Currently, PowerVC (and it's OpenStack Modules) log everything to /var/log/openstackmodulename. Our organization tries to maintain standard builds and doesn't allow the /var/log, /opt, or /var filesystems to be resized and are often too small for ...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Provide a PowerVC CLI which can be used to generates a file with a list of users and roles for MongoDB and MariaDB

provide a PowerVC CLI which can be used to generates a file with a list of users and roles for MongoDB and MariaDB.
about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

add support for encrytping passwords in /opt/ibm/powervc/powervcrc file

IBM PowerVC uses a script file to set a number of parameters, including password via the file opt/ibm/powervcrc the file is clear text, encrypting the password via an AES string would ensure protection of a password is stashed in this file
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration