Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

My ideas

Showing 4756 of 4756

Allow user-configurable resolution in PCM graphs (up/downsampling control)

Currently, the Performance and Capacity Monitoring (PCM) graphs on HMC automatically determine the X-axis resolution based on the selected time interval. This often limits visibility into the granularity of metrics unless a very short time window ...
11 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add capability of defining subgroups for Compliance page

For usability in large environments it would behelpfull to be able to create subgroups on the Compliance page. Here an example: Group: SAP - Sub-Group: SAP-Test SAP-QA SAP-Prod
4 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

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 ...
3 months 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...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

Seperating Access to Profile Editor

Currently there is one option to give an user rw rights. For all custom profiles or none. We have the need to be more granular. For instance: seperate it by operating system seperte it within an Operating system (by LPAR or hostname)
6 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Add a flag to HMC CLI commands to display attribute names inline with attributes when using -F filter on atributes (similiar to --header)

When scripting on HMC CLI you have basically two options for filtering attributes. For example 1. lshmcusr | grep $USER name=dummy,taskrole=hmcoperator,description='Dummy User',pwage=30,resourcerole=ALL:,authentication_type=local,remote_webui_acce...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

AIX community edition for QEMU/KVM

AIX will remain the leading UNIX operating system for mission-critical environments for many years to come. It has performance, security and ease of administration features that make it a very interesting option for new deployments complementing t...
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Under review
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 ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

ACS Spool File Download Options

Be able to include the USRDTA in the file name when downloading a spoolfile to your local computer. The user data can mean something and it would be nice to be able to include that as part of the PDF file name.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Add OPEN *ALL to RPG to open all files not already open.

Files defined as USROPN or already closed must be opened manually and individually and code must make sure each file is not already open. OPEN *ALL would be the complement to CLOSE *ALL.
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted