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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    Preferred node support for IBM SVC stretched cluster / PBHA

    In a IBM (enhanced) stretched cluster or a PBHA (Hyperswap) implementation, it is necessary that the preferred node of a LUN is on the same site then the VM is running. Otherwise every IO has to go twice over the ISL's, because the multipath drive...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Image import via OVA with two storage-provider

    If you do a hostbase mirroring (in AIX mostly standard) you have it mostly mirrored over two storages(provider). You want to export this image. The OVA format can be used to export two disks. Unfortunately, PowerVC stops the process.
    8 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Provide visual indication when IWS web UI is busy

    When the IWS server web UI is doing work, there is no visual indication that it is busy when managing deployed services. Providing a busy indicator will make managing deployed services much easier because we will have an indication when processes ...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC container based (docker/podman)

    To simplify the installation and update procedure and get more stability. This also reduces the dependencies on the operating system/repos.
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Configuring IPG to be exclusive for Tape Storage Templates

    Most of the Power customers follow the best practice of segregating Disk and Tape traffic onto separate VIOS FC ports. Although PowerVC currently allows for specifying an IPG on Tape storage template (CLI), this IPG can be used by other Storage Te...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    More detailed user and role management in Power VC (based on Openstack Identity)

    More detailed role and user management. In large installations and in environments with high security restrictions, such as banks, it is crucial to very precisely manage user rights and their roles, so I am asking you to expand these functionaliti...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add ability to provide additional HTTP status codes when processing a REST web service.

    Using REST in IWS, there is no ability to provide alternate return/result codes when processing a web service request. There are only 2 options, status codes 200 or 400. There is need to have user definable result codes to respond with alternate c...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

    Enable volume sharing and set storage template on multiple volumes in GUI

    When multiple storage volumes are being created or onboarded through PowerVC GUI, the volume sharing and set storage template options can only be done on one volume at a time. This is very time consuming and laborious job from the GUI when the num...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    RSE API's - swagger or yaml file

    Hello, Would it be possible to have the swagger or a yaml file available? This would facilitate the integration of calls to these APIs in external software capable of scripting and automating certain tasks.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists

    Changing the SRIOV port label on an existing Network Template

    Currently editing the SRIOV port label on existing network template is not possible, this is important for customers who are using SEA based hosts and are adding SRIOV based hosts to PowerVC. Even for the same network, customer's have to create ne...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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