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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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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.

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Hardware Management Console

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HMC ethernet failover capability

Currently we have eth0 private as usual, eth1 is publice with a 221 address with routing and gateway device as eth1. That cable is plugged in to our B side switch. We would like to add another connection to our A side switch in case b side goes do...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

POWER7 to POWER8 offline Migration

The process to migrate LPARs from the POWER7 to the POWER8 lacks a user friendly HMC GUI. There is a lack of instructions and intuitive interfaces available, causing delays and an overall poor customer experience.
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Backup and restore Performance data to different HMC and export to xcel sheet

Backup and restore Performance data to different HMC and export to Xcel sheet
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 8 Delivered

PowerVM HMC installios Options

HMC installios command can fail due to network configuration issues. Adding an option to specify the number of attempts for the BOOTP and TFTP requests and setting the number of attempts higher than 5 (default) can increase the chances of a succes...
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

HMC - to avoid stopping power instead of LPAR

System: Power HMC To avoid stopping power instead of LPAR Description: In HMC when it is inside the servers, in the zone of partitions, when give the order to stop the machine of power, I suggest include a cancel button on the screen that appears ...
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 10 Delivered

Modification of tcp buffers on HMC adapters for improved performance to different AIX versions

The customer is requesting a supported procedure on how to modify the TCP buffers on the HMC in order to tweak the connection, because of the following scenario: From the 6.1 LPAR to HMC scp is running at 350KB/s From the 5.3 LPAR to HMC scp is ru...
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

SAN Zoning Validation for LPM from HMC

Provide a Automated Procedure to Validate SAN zoning for LPM for any or all Lpars in a given frame from HMC instead of logging into to each Lpar and VIOS. This procedure or script should be able to tell whether the lpar move from one frame to anot...
about 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered