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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    create a temp per process ifs dir QTEMP like in use

    For security and auto cleanup, would be useful to have a particular named directory in IFS called for example /QTEMP or /jobtmp etc. that is local to the process (and PASE process) and behaves just like the QTEMP library. Or something autogenerate...
    4 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Submitted

    Add flag to viosbr backup command to exclude security files

    The viosbr command has been expanded to backup all of the trusted AIX file sets (twice) which has increased the size of the tarred, zipped backup file 1,000 times (not a typo). A flag has been created to not use these files when restoring but the ...
    4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Notifications and Alerting

    Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
    4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    RBAC for PowerHA and AdminDomain

    It would be helpful to provide product level security where not everyone can access administrative tasks. View access vs. Admin access.
    4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

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

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

    IBM needs to identify access paths for self-training on IBM i

    Free access IBM i systems like PUB400.COM have up to the present been critical in the community at providing venues for self-training in IBM i. I and others in the community consider it absolutely necessary that such venues continue, and the IBM t...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

    HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems.

    HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems. This enhancement will provide a customer with the current status of the flex capacity utilization, which will make managing and decision making of moving capacity...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    In Compliance tab, last applied type doesnt show full profile name

    We do have custom profiles created out CISv1 profile and named with starting CISv1. Since last applied type only shows few characters, we are not able to identify which profile a server got applied.
    4 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

    VIOSUPGRADE / UPDATEIOS -- Add "Date" and "Time" prefixes to screen output

    Whilst running the update / upgrade (VIOS) commands one cannot easily see "when" a specific piece of screen output was written, was it a second ago or two hours? Having the extra detail displayed on the screen helps with understanding, improves cl...
    4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Add status info while searching available levels of firmware update.

    When trying to use:Systems > Firmware > Update system firmware (for Power machine)the wizard gets stuck at Choose firmware type and target levelspecifically when I click on Search Available levels It can be stuck for anywhere 10-20-60 minute...
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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