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 votes: Hardware Management Console

    Showing 430 of 4967

    Please make the newer HMC models like the 7063-CR1 & 7063-CR2 models be able to read USB flash drives formatted as exFAT or NTFS. The latest service pack ISO file for V10R1 (Service Pack 1021) is 5 GB and is too large to go on a USB drive formatted as FAT32. The HMC is onlt able to read FAT32 formatted flash drives so I can't do my service pack update using a USB flash drive. I have to perform using the network method which is a bit more cumbersome. If the HMC was updated to allow USB format exFAT or NTFS then I could do ISO updates that are larger than 4 GB using the USB flash drive like I have always done in the past. Thanks.

    Makes it more convenient for everybody using the HMC to do updates.
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Task in Scheduled Operations to Schedule an HMC Reboot

    We have numerous frames attached to an HMC. IBM recommends rebooting the HMC monthly to quarterly. We would like to schedule a reboot in 'Scheduled Operations'.
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Sharing of VIOS Upgrade/Update ISO files between HMCs

    Dear Sirs, we used the HMC to download and update the VIOS partitons on our Test-Site. Although we locally stored the ISO (on the HMC at the Test-Site), we were not able to transfer it to the HMC at the Production-Site. As we want to be sure to us...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    ASMI Data collection from HMC CLI

    We would like to be able to see ASMI logs directly from HMC CLI. For more details please check TS001639762.
    about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Add GUI options for LU functions in Shared Storage Pool

    Today there is not a GUI option to handle snapshots of logical volumes / disks in Shared Storage Pool.
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to download and generate HMC logs from the GUI

    It would be useful to both have the ability to generate and download HMC system logs from the HMC GUI rather than resorting to the CLI when troubleshooting an issue with IBM. Also the ability to see logs in /tmp so these can be cleaned up by the u...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

    Enable encryption for HMC disks

    Our understanding is that HMC disk data may not be encrypted as on today. HMC disks are not encryption capable and there is no workaround either. Please enable the encryption capability on the HMC disks
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Allow HMC to get OS version from Novalink

    If there is no RMC connection to the HMC from the partition(s), the OS level cannot be determined. This leaves the OS-level field "blank" on the HMC. This influences tools that rely on the OS version, like LPAR2RRD and also makes it more difficult...
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    7063-CR1 BMC Console Redirection over HTML5

    On Power Based HMC 7063-CR1 BMC Console Redirection is only possible with Java. On x86 Based HMC 7042-CR9 IMM2 Console Redirection was possible with HTML5.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

    Fibre Channel Port Label

    The should be unification between labels set with the labelvios command for FC ports and the VIO FC device attribute setting.
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.