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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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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

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

Project names should be more clearly visible and sorted

When you start PowerVC it asks you which project you wish to work on (if you have access to more than one I guess). It displays prominently across the top of the screen. If you want to change the project you are working on, you get a short list of...
6 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Future consideration

IBM i DCM - Last used timestamp for each certificate

For the purpose of housekeeping the certificate stores in IBM i DCM, it would be very useful to enhance DCM to be able to show the "Last Used Time Stamp" and also "Use Count" for EACH certificate in the store so that system admin can efficiently s...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Named index of current iteration in for-each loop

I'm building some functionality that relies on several arrays that need to be filled, checked and modified on the fly. I like the for-each loop with dim(*auto: nn) for this. In the initial load proces I can use '*next' as an index, which is great....
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

Allow CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE to set the correct source info in the resulting table

When we create a table using CREATE TABLE to create a new table, the object description of the resulting table contains the source information for the source member used by RUNSQLSTM to create the table. When we use CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE to repl...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 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.
10 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Drop down lists to have a search function.

Currently, to find an item in the drop down lists in PowerVC, you have to look for the item that you need manually, there is no search function. In large environments with many projects and storage templates this becomes cumbersome. Having search ...
4 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Dropdown lists to be sorted alphbetically

Currently the drop down lists in PowerVC appear to be sorted by the openstack object ID number. This is not very user friendly especially when there are a large number of items in the list. It would be much better if these lists were sorted alphab...
4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration