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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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Have HMC show submitted commands

Like storwize Software, HMC Power Management console uses command strings created by the web UI to execute the functions. Most of these commands also can be sent by ssh. For documentation compliance and learning purposes it is requested to have an...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Recover space on thin provisioned disks

IBM i doesn't currently support TRIM or UNMAP primitives which would allow the OS to mark space as free for the storage to reclaim. This limits the benefits of Thin Provisioning since once space is consumed it is never recovered during the life of...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Delivered

Improve the MPIO path failure detection algorithm

Please see PMR
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Want to have number of cores used and Memory in GB/TB used in CMC for PEP 2.x

In the history of CPU consumption i can only see under Minutes cumulated number of cores used but not for hours/days/Weeks/MonthIn the Memory overview i want to see the accumulated use in GB/TB per Pool and not the minutes or KB etc.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Delivered

Iseries - Huge amount of error messages going to qsysopr msgq that are irrelevant to the operation of the iseries

Error messages: CPI1131 CPI1133These error messages are generated when a user let's their interactive 5250 session timeout and are based on two system values which are QINACTITV and QINACTMSGQ. These messages fill our QSYSOPR msgq to the point tha...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Delivered

Apple Mac Os Support in Netserver

At the moment it ist not possible to access a IFS Share correctly via Netserver from Apple Mac OS X.There are only shown 34 Objects(directories, files) per directory in Mac OS Finder. Switching between smb, smb1,smb2,smb3 or cifs in Finder has no ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Delivered

Create a VM but with a blank disk ready to be installed

If I want to have, say, 5 operating systems available for deployable in PowerVC (a couple of AIX releases and a few Linux's) then I have to by hand create 5 LPARs, hand create 5 Disks and by hand add them to the VM before I start installing the OS...
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Allow VMRM/DR to scale CPU UP (>100%)

Currently VMRM/DR allows the CPU to be scaled down when an LPAR moves to the DR site. However, when we're moving a correctly-sized LPAR from a POWER9 to a POWER8, this severly reduces the performance, even when using 100% due to the difference in ...
about 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Add support for Power Enterprise Pools V2 for PowerVC 1.4.2

PowerVC 1.4.3 will support PEP V2, require this capability for PowerVC 1.4.2
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

BRMS Syncing issues due to changing entries on QUSRBRM/QA1AMM

The QA1AMM is getting updated for every open and close of the blocks processed on tape. This is to update the latest used date/time in the QA1AMM file. Due to these updates on QA1AMM file, the QUSRBRM/QJ1ACM journal entries were piled up. In my en...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered