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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    Power Supply "AC resume" message enhancement for P7/8/9 CEC and IO Drawer

    Existing P7/8/9 do not have power supply resume message from HMC. and the AC loss message are only prompt once. Customer do have not any methodology to remote monitor if the CEC / IOC power supply status except go into the data-center to check the...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

    HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

    Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

    CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Improve PowerHA SVC/FlashSystem ssh access security model

    Today PowerHA requires unrestricted the Admin role via SSH to manage the copy relationships on SVC/FlashSystem family storage. In todays modern security environment this is unacceptable to have a full multitenant array have unrestricted SSH access...
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    Performance Cycling at 12:00 AM on multiple Lpars cause CMC Enterprise core usage to peak lasting 800 microseconds giving very high average core usage

    Let.s say you have purchased IBM CMC Enterprise Pools2.0 concept, and you have license for 10 core and 1 core credit. Your average per minute usage is between 6-7 core all day. But a 12:00 AM when performance collection is cycled on all your ibm i...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Submitted

    Create a "Code for IBM i" Extension for JetBrains PyCharm (similar to the one for Visual Studio Code)

    Currently, the "Code for IBM i" extension is available for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers working on IBM i to benefit from a modern and integrated development environment. However, many developers also use JetBrains PyCharm for their proj...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    IBM i - Build an hypervisor linked to a physical device (dongle) to run "IBM i Dev-Edition" in a Apple Mac with Silicon processor.

    To improve IBM i adoption with new generations we need to provide them with an inexpensive and "cool" experience. IBM i runs in its own "hardware abstraction layer", so porting to a new hardware is supposed to be less complex than other OSs. Most ...
    3 months ago in Power Systems Design 4 Submitted

    Integrate AIX software repositories (including Toolbox) with RHEL Satellite for central management of both operating systems.

    We use the RHEL satellite (and Foreman) for all Linux hosts, why not integrate also AIX here and then maybe also use the insights software for monitoring and reporting.
    8 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Support for SFP mix in 4-port adapter EN24, EN26

    Actual 4-port adapters EN24 and EN26 don't support mix of SFP. Many customers require to split management network usually based on 1Gb Ethernet from 10/25Gb access ports. 4-port adapters are ideal product to have dual VIO setup with pairs of these...
    about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Submitted

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