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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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Widen panel dividers

Maybe I'm getting old ;-) ... but I'm frustrated wasting precious seconds moving my cursor back and forth across the panel dividers in a perspective trying to position the cursor precisely in the 2-pixel (or so it seems) width of the divider, requ...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

V7R3 COBOL ILE PARMS Function fails when called from QZRUCLSP

When Called from a caller that does not pass the Minimal operational descriptor, the PARMS function fails catastrophically. This causes an un-graceful and uncontrolled end to the Program invoking PARMS with no return message. Use Case: When a prog...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 5 Future consideration

PowerVC - AD Integration and Group Link

Request to add into UI to join LDAP / AD (With noted examples of syntax!!!!! ). With post connection UI wizard or connection under groups where you select a PowerVC group and link it to AD group.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - UI Upgrade Component

Ability to query current version also includes notification of "upgrade pending". Where system upon check queries IBM site for patches or upgrade. Utility provides option to download and apply upgrade or patch as part of a wizard to apply immediat...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Define Quotas per user

Set up Quotas per user within a project for number of partitions assigned per user and/or number of partitions assigned to a user that can be concurrently active.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Cleanup after a remote restart of a VM when a system profiles are restored from backups

Assume that a running system was failed completely loosing its profiles and running VMs were remote restarted by PowerVC to other running systems. In above case, after the failure loosing profiles and VMs are relocated auotmatically. When the fail...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add Searchlight in PowerVC

Searchlight dramatically improves the user focused search capabilities and performance on behalf of various OpenStack cloud services. Searchlight was originally developed and released in the Kilo release of Glance. It would be a great improvement ...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Allow LPAR ID modification during Novalink Recovery partition data process

The current Novalink recovery process has been created to accommodate the recovery of a physical server from a Novalink only managed deployment and greenfield clients who are fine with not implementing internal standards. This recovery process is ...
over 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

PowerVC - zone update to CISCO switches

Customer would like zone updates to cisco switches to be staggered and delayed.PowerVC when creating zones for storage will force a zone update, On Cisco switches that may cause an outage to all storage impacted by the zone.The customer has redund...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC support for Brocade LSAN (FC routing)

Within IKEA cloud (and automation) track there are systems (VM´s) that use storage from 2 different sites (different clusters). Today LSAN is configured for achieving this.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration