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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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:

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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,

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  1. Post an idea.

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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.

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    Cloud Connector Status report also HMC hostname

    it's much easier to find HMC hostname during investigation
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    NIM master process 'nimesis' to better handle network port scans

    Since the recent NIM SSL security fix was applied, we have had nimesis process restart and hang during scheduled network port scan activities. We would like the nimesis process to be more resilient when port scanned to remain available when port s...
    3 months ago in AIX 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

    viosupgrade command -- Add flag to auto-restore files saved by -g flag

    ** Update ** IBM have already catered for my "Idea" as they've provided the "-F forcecopy" flag on the "viosupgrade" command which achieves exactly what I'm after. Please "IGNORE" this idea As IBM already has a flag ( viosupgrade -g ) to automatic...
    4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 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

    Add FSFC Full System Flashcopy option for holding Advanced Job Scheduler jobs

    There is a parameter for holding regular scheduled jobs in the default IBM i job scheduler, but there is not one for the (newly free of charge) Advanced Job Scheduler. We would like one.
    4 months ago in IBM i / Other 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...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

    starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Read Only Access for individual PEP2.0 pools in the CMC

    Read only access to the Enterprise Pools in the CMC is a wonderful thing that is almost complete. What is missing is the ability to be more granular. Right now , the person with Read Only access gets access to ALL of the pools in the CMC. This is ...
    9 months ago in Cloud 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

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