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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    Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

    Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    RDI: Possibility to force an update of the image in Screen Designer

    When editing a DDS screen file in the Screen Designer we have the possibility to switch between a Design and a Source window. So far so good. Unfortunately it happens that when changes are made to the source and you switch back to the Design windo...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Enable the use of VLAN tagging for HMC LAN/network ports

    The HMC’s LAN/network ports do not accept VLAN‑tagged traffic when a public IP is configured. They expect untagged (access) frames on a single VLAN. If an HMC LAN port is connected to a switch port set as a trunk (carrying multiple 802.1Q‑tagged V...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    make simplified remote restart fully disaster recovery capable

    When employing simplified remote restart, one requisite to restart an LPAR on another machine is that all SAN paths and targets (e.g. LUNs) have to be available on target VIO servers. During a disaster recovery scenario, this is not the case; in a...
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    The x86 image should also be provided for Nutanix, as more customers migrate from VMWare to Nutanix

    Flexible IBM Power solutions for the customer
    about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs

    Make text copyable in RDi property dialogs so it is easier to copy & paste information such as job names, output queue, etc. Candidate dialogs: Job properties, debug properties, etc.
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Return previous functionality to manage rw / read-only on virtual media library iso's from the GUI.

    HMC users managing the virtual media library from the GUI were impacted when this functionality was removed.
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

    We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
    8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Improve the Reconnect process for RDi

    When working remotely for the past 2 years I connect to our corporate network via VPN prior to opening RDi. Everything works fine in RDi until my VPN connection drops. At this point RDi still shows as connected. When I reconnect the VPN and try to...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

    Display command for a GUI task

    The HMC should have the possibility to show the CLI command for a task that is executed over the GUI. For example the start of a VM should return "chsysstate -r lpar .....". Such a functionality is implemented in AIX SMIT using the F6 key. This wo...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

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