IBM Power Ideas Portal


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    RDi "BYOE" (Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse) Edition

    The idea is, to have RDi as an BYOE (Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse) install, which can be integrated into any existing Eclipse installation (even under Linux). This way, RDi would open up to more developers, especially to developers running Eclipse on Li...
    12 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    GLVM for 3 locations (sides)

    Currently GLVM only support 2 sides.However, the LVM is able to manage 3 copies.Specially for IBM Cloud environments it is required to get GLVM to support 3 sides. So that the full capability of the AIX LVM can be utilized.
    about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    Instantaneous consumption of IBM Power servers

    With the great challenges of energy reduction that we will have to face and in the perspective of "greenIT", it would be interesting to me to be able to know the instantaneous consumption of the Power (and others) infrastructure . As requested by ...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    Changing the SRIOV port label on an existing Network Template

    Currently editing the SRIOV port label on existing network template is not possible, this is important for customers who are using SEA based hosts and are adding SRIOV based hosts to PowerVC. Even for the same network, customer's have to create ne...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Option to only use one IPG per VM for all volumes, other than IPG for Tape

    When multiple IPGs are specified in one Storage Connectivity Group, PowerVC uses multiple IPG for storage volume provisioning to a VM. This creates lot of VFC adapters/Zones/Storage Host Entries for each VM, creating lot of complexity in managemen...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    CLI option to switch on/off HMC performance data collection

    we need an CLI option to switch on/off/configure HMC performance data collection feature to integrate in system-automation (eg. Ansible).
    8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Allow data structures to be extended or decorated

    RPG currently allows us to define a data structure with the same layout another with the LIKEDS keyword. It would be useful to be able to use a similar keyword to define the basic structure, but also to extend the data structure and add additional...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

    PowerVC: LDAP registration support for special character

    PowerVC ldap registration has limited support for special characters making registration difficult
    4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    User friendly logging of any change activity on HMC for LPAR and Power Server itself

    Would like to have a recording of activities like change,add,remove things for LPAR and/or Power Server in the HMC. The task window is not enough and shows only minimal change information.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Add parameter to RSTLIB / RSTOBJ commands to restore table(s) without data

    Please consider adding a parameter to the RSTLIB and RSTOBJ commands to allow restore of DB2 tables / PF's without data (rows). It would be great to be able to restore libraries or objects without getting the data onto the system. Use case 1: We h...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

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