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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    Offer Windows USB recovery media tool for the HMC

    IBM only offer a Linux method of creating a USB bootable recovery image for the HMC (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6454883). It would be good to have a media creation tool for Windows which can take the ISO recovery image and format the U...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    Better implementation of Spectrum Scale Storage Provider in PowerVC GUI

    In new versions PowerVC can be installed as SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) edition. The storage part of the SDI could be implemented with Spectrum Scale 5.x on VIOS using remote cluster mount to Spectrum Scale Storage Servers PowerVC contr...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Refactor the Network tab when deploying new LPAR

    In PowerVC 2.0.3 when you deploy a VM from the UI, when you have more than 500 networks in the list, the page is totally unusable correctly. Instead of having the list of ALL the networks already populated, it would probably be better to be able ...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Refresh storage information on remanage of VM

    Currently, not all storage operations can be performed through PowerVC. If changes have been made to storage outside of PowerVC there is no way to resync data such as the volume sizes. When managing a VM that had previously existed in PowerVC, att...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Resize multiple volumes using 1 request

    PowerVC allows Volume resize, today each volume must be resized one at a time. ideally, PowerVC would allow selection of multiple volumes and resize to a size larger than the largest existing volume. Example. Volume 1 is 200 GB VOlume 2 is 100 GB ...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Create a new GO SAVE option to save all the OS

    Sometimes, when migrating a system to the cloud, we use a save-and-restore method for migration. We take Option 22 for the basic OS on Virtual Optical media to install using NFS and Option 23/21 on Virtual Tape for the data, because is faster. But...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

    UI Enhancement - add ability to shutdown / reboot PVC from GUI

    It would be nice if the PVC GUI would offer the ability to shutdown / reboot PVC itself similar to the HMC.
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Enhanced SQL Call Level Interface (CLI) resource management options

    Today, a CLI (SQL Call Level Interface) environment handle allocated via the SQLAllocEnv() API is automatically tied to the callstack entry which allocated it, meaning that when that program leaves the stack, the system deems the environment handl...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

    Python support for external SQL stored procedures.

    DB2 SQL for i support Java for external stored procedures. I will be be a good option if we can write external stored procedures in Python and may be some other open source languages like Go Lang.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    IBM i LAN CONSOLE IP obtain via DHCP or allow to be set form command line.

    IBM i LAN CONSOLE IP obtain via DHCP or allow to be set form command line. The dafault IP for the lan console works great when essentially connecting direclty to the plaltform ethernet lan card through an open personal switch and a non-managed lap...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

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