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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    HMC V11 should support download the zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI

    HMC V11 now supports collecting service data like VIOS snap, HMC debug and is able to automatically upload to an IBM case.If the client do not allow automatic upload or wants to collect data later, after the case has been created, then it would be...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted
    132 VOTE

    Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

    Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    possibility to assign the certificate from DCM console for Navigator and DCM web portal

    Today we have to manage or assign the certifiate outside DCM console especially while renewing new certificate we have to manage all tcp enabled ssl service in DCM console and for navigator and DCM outside DCM console like web admin console and na...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Under review

    lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted
    144 VOTE

    Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

    When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration
    124 VOTE

    HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

    At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    Security java toolbox vs Job batch

    We are encountering more and more standard processes that use the Java Toolbox, particularly when using IWS servers.My company and I have identified cases of interference between these processes and the batch jobs that use them.For years, we have ...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 6 Under review

    Frame P8 support on HMC V11

    Many customers still have P8 frames in service because it's the latest version supporting AIX 5.3. Lot of infrastructures have P8 and P10 frames connected to the same HMC. The refusal to support P8 frames requires segmenting the management of the...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Few confirmation screen before power off manage system

    It has been observed a couple of times in the past that the managed server on the processors (i.e. the whole machine) has been powered off accidently since the enhanced version of the GUI was available. To avoid another accident in future can we h...
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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