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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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Improve PowerHA 7.1.3.5 SmartAssist Oracle DB scripts

As per current design (PowerHA 7.1.3.5 in my case) - if either Oracle listener or Oracle DB goes down - we will invoke the restart script to restart both listener and DB, which is wrong. If a listener goes down, only the listener should be restart...
almost 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

Add *LSTSAVSYS option to PERIOD Beginning date for STRRCYBRM

Current options on STRRCYBRM prevent us from automating printing of recovery reports including using a hub system in Enterprise Services. To get usable reports for a recovery we have to keep track of the last SAVSYS and manually enter that date on...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Delivered

RFE Notifications for IBM AIX

How to receive RFE notifications about IBM AIX?
almost 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

LPM Activity Logging

For the new Oracle DB Licensing Model, we need a possibility to log every LPM (Live Partion Moving) Transaction within a Power Server. This log should be exportable for a permanently archive in an audit-proof manner.
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Do not allow end-user to control "trusted" signers

When connecting the first time to a new system with IBM i Access Solutions in SSL mode, the client allows the end user to accept the root/intermediate certificate which introduces a secrurity risk (MITM attack). The client should only use pre-load...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

HMC issues after upgrade to V7.7.9.0 SP3

We have upgraded HMC from HMC V7.7.9.0 SP1 to HMC V7.7.9.0 SP3.After HMC update , when trying to run any "viosvrcmd" commands its not working and giving error as below. The same commands were working before the upgrade when we were in lower SP lev...
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Support for BNA ELS frames

we get daily error reports on every port of FC Adapters 5735 caused by SAN diagnostic packets LABEL: FCA_ERR6IDENTIFIER: ECCE4018 VIOS Level is 2.2.4.10Please add Support for BNA ELS Frames in AIX and VIOS
about 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

PATTERN support for IFS save with BRMS

Please allow us to exclude IFS files and folders using PATTERN. We often run into excluding individual cache/log/tmp files and folders. Those lists need to be maintained which is basically a waste of time. Use Case: See above.
about 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Delivered

HMC Manage Serviceable Event Notification SMTP server credentials

We are unable to set user & password for SMTP server when configuring HMC Manage Serviceable Event Notification. We no longer have a SMTP server in-house as our email is now cloud based and require user/password authentication in order to rela...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Set Virtual Machine Name by DNS lookup on IP address chosen

On an image deploy you have to enter a virtual machine name and then either enter in an IP or have it select from the pool. There is no link to my DNS servers to create an A entry for that name. Also, I want to have a list of predefined names that...
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered