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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    PowerVC doesnt sync VM name change to HMC partition name

    VM name change in PowerVC doesnt update the partion name on HMC which causes trouble in certain scenarios.
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Introduce Proactive notification of any issues reported in the PowerVC log

    We recently had an issue where the SSH connection to storage broke (not PowerVC’s fault). We did not notice this issue until users complained of PowerVC not working to add disks or VMs. In the PowerVC log, it was obvious that storage had an issue,...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Need a mechanism for the customer to do internal chargeback via the Cloud Management Console.

    I see something that is needed and should be easy to implement in the CMC. That being a mechanism for customer internal Charge-back. One of the benefits of the “cloud” is that the cost is easy accountable. However, that has not been easy with on-p...
    almost 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Make IBM i compatible with SMBC AIX

    the SMBC does not work with IBM i Use Case: We have set up the SMBC on our AIX servers for exchanges between AIX, Windows, etc. However, the SMBC does not work with IBM i. Would it be possible to make IBM i compatible with SMBC AIX
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

    Change default instance for LDAP tcp server

    Hello, one of our lpars has the QUSRDIR2 instance working under the LDAP tcp/ip server, and due that, the LDAP server is in "stopped" status but that is not correct. May be there is a possibility to assign any instance as default for that tcp serv...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Future consideration

    Let's Encrypt support for HMC

    Add Let's Encrypt integration to HMC code to automate the security certificate management on these appliances. For clarity, more details about Let's Encrypt athttps://letsencrypt.org/about/
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Provide a QteRetrieveModuleViews API that works when NOT in Debug Mode

    No APIs return the DBGVIEW(*LIST | *SOURCE | *ALL | *NONE | *STMT) attribute for programs or embedded *MODULEs except QteRetrieveModuleViews. However it, like all Qte* API are enabled only while the job is in Debug Mode. Please provide this inform...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration

    Project Manager Approval Process Scope Change

    When using shared images, the project's Project Manager is no longer getting approval requests and it goes straight to an admin. My thought behind a PM is that they would be the one to manage all VMs in that project's scope. So by not allowing the...
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    AIX Live Update and EMC rootvg

    Currently, Live Update at AIX 7.2 fails if the rootvg is managed by Powerpath. We need this to be a supported platform please.
    almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

    Rebalance button to spread Vms across the hosts?

    Currently we cannot rebalance VMs across hosts without using DRO or maintenance mode.Clicking this button button "rebalance VMs" would help, based on various parameters like cpu utilization, allocation or MSPPools utilization , it would be VERY nice!
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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