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 1.4.1.1 FCOE Support

    Fix was provided for FCOE on PowerVC 1.3.1 back in 2016. Customer (Independence Tube Corporation) would like to update PowerVC to 1.4.1.1. This breaks SAN functionality using FCOE adapters. Need similar fix to allow PowerVC SAN to work with FCOE a...
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Backup / Restore Network definitions

    I would like to request a feature on PowerVC that would enable backing up / restoring Network definitions on PowerVC.
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC and 3PAR configuration

    I would like from PowerVC get the actual configuration (NPIV) from 3PAR, such as exports, hostports, redundancy within storage nodes.
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Self-closing tags in COBOL (IBMi)

    Creating XML messages on COBOL using XML-GENERATE has limited option when compared to Z/OS COBOL. Getting around the requirement to build XML with self-closing tags is a tedious task. Would be helpful to have this option in native COBOL.
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Future consideration

    Cross Frames Shared Processor Pool via PEP

    - Today PEP2.0 delivers capability to allow flexible usage of system resources (core, ram, OS) across frames. - Client evaluating PEP2.0 have expressed concern that with PEP induced flexibility, they lose control over DB/App software license usage...
    almost 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC- Clean Server/Client SCSI Adapters from VIOs/VM's profile after VM's Deployment

    Hello,The current PowerVC when VM's are deployed, Server/Cleint SCSI Adapters get created on the VIOs/VM's for virtual media library for each VM's deployed. Our environment uses NPIV and it would be great if the Server/Client SCSI adapters gets cl...
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Create/Add Member Filter from Object Table

    Add function to Object Table to select one or more results, right-click, and add the selection to a member filter. There is a similar function in a 3rd party plugin called iSphere that allows adding search results to a member filter, but, its for ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Problem whit the discs paramitters on AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2

    we have found that upgrading to AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 changes the disk policies. We think that this is a big problem, because we manage hundreds of servers, and if we change the reserve_policy with chdev, then every time a technician adds a disks to a c...
    almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    RDi IBM i Search retain last Member filter

    Rational Developer for i version 9.8 always defaults to a blank Member filter when doing an IBM i Search (CTRL-H => IBM i Search). This means the "*" has to be entered every time. This was a change from prior versions (like 9.6) which defaulted...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Add identity of Database File and Member in QSPL of the SPOOLED File to QUSRSPLA API

    Please add the name of the QSPL database file and member to the Retrieve SPOOLED File Attributes API. If there are multiple members/files, then return it as an repeating list of this with the offset and count as the way to jump to the info. Perhap...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

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