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

PowerVC

    Showing 310

    Seperate Storage connectivity group(s) for Boot vs DATA volumes

    Currently per VM in PowerVC, only one Storage connectivity group is supported The impact of this is that the same storage type (SSP/VSCSI/NPIV/ISCSI) must be used for all volumes in a Virtual Machine We have many Clustered VM's were we need to hav...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    CINDER driver on PowerVC 2.1.1 with ALUA

    Hello, We're going to set up a POC on our POWERVC infra to provision LUNS in our Hitachi disk array, thanks to the CINDER driver in version 14 embedded in POWERVC version 2.1.1.In the doc, I read that "You cannot use Asymmetric logical unit access...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Publish API(s) to perform the work done via CLI command powervc-edit-scg

    For automation. And not needing elevated access to OSI.
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Fabric monitoring/visibility for PowerVC

    Hello team, We have PowerVC 2.0.2 and during migration storage fabrics were replaced as well. Unfortunately without accounts for PowerVC. Once that was done PowerVC was blind for that, we tried:- create new LUN - it failed, without any notificatio...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Need to limit number of concurrent migration while entering host to maintenance mode

    Currently when a host selecting for maintenance mode, it got 3 options - Active, all or none. We need to limit the concurrent migration number so that we don't exhaust the available resources. Preferably an option in the maintenance mode screen as...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    A way for PowerVC 2.0 to purge data out of logs by date/time and status.

    A way to purge data from the logs in the PowerVC 2.0 GUI with a certain status for a specific date/time.
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

    PowerVC to provide the option to change the log directory locations to a different disk pool

    Currently, PowerVC (and it's OpenStack Modules) log everything to /var/log/openstackmodulename. Our organization tries to maintain standard builds and doesn't allow the /var/log, /opt, or /var filesystems to be resized and are often too small for ...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Provide a PowerVC CLI which can be used to generates a file with a list of users and roles for MongoDB and MariaDB

    provide a PowerVC CLI which can be used to generates a file with a list of users and roles for MongoDB and MariaDB.
    about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    add support for encrytping passwords in /opt/ibm/powervc/powervcrc file

    IBM PowerVC uses a script file to set a number of parameters, including password via the file opt/ibm/powervcrc the file is clear text, encrypting the password via an AES string would ensure protection of a password is stashed in this file
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Customizable install location of PowerVC (rather than always /opt/ibm and /var/logs)

    We don't support the operating system, and PowerVC is just an application, so needs to be out of root filesystems
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    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.