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 36

    Support vHMC on Hyper-v

    Many customers are using vmware, but with new license/broadcom challenges then other hypervisors are asked for. Smaller sites dont have a separate Power systems (or 2) to use for the vHMC so they are forced to either purchase the CR2 (best choice ...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

    If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    HMC virtual console, increase the terminal windows rows

    When doing installations and I want to save the output, todays virtual console is not saving enough rows.In normal situations one of course use a terminal session to the virtual server but when working with network or as an active work viosupgrade...
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 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...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    More usability on HMC UI panel to add vNIC Backing Device to an LPAR

    HMC UI panel to add vNIC Backing Device: please consider to add physical port label next to the physical port location physical port label in addition to the physical port location code helps to identify the correct ressource to add additional bac...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

    For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Enhance the 5250 console support provided by the HMC (remote) to support 132-column display.

    For a limited function IBM i LPAR (such as an FSFC target) where, for security reasons the only advisable interactive connection is via an HMC console, having a 132 column screen would provide an immeasurable benefit in viewing 132 position spoole...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    PowerVC with 2 HMC

    Our customer "Etat de Geneve" many Power systems with PowerVC and dual HMC. In powerVC, one have the possibility to connect a host with 2 HMCs, one being primary, the other being secondary. To improve performance, one can load-balance the connecti...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add a tree view option to the Systems page.

    It would be useful to see which partitions were on which physical machine/serial number in one view. Older versions of the HMC had this view and it would be nice if V10 had it without having to switch to the old dashboard.
    12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    be able to send authlog to an external server

    We need authlog from the hmc sent to an external server (a clm for example) In the rsyslog config on the hmc, their is a config to send them to /var/hsc/log/secure : cat /etc/rsyslog.d/50-hmc-auth.conf => auth.* /var/hsc/log/secure & sto...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    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.