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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Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

NVMeOF support in PowerHA

Fibre Channel (FC)-Nonvolatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics (NVMeoF) protocol in the PowerVM N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) stack (NVMeoF) offers a significant boost in performance and efficiency. AIX on Power Systems, supports NVMe over Fi...
about 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

Support of OAUTH in SMTP

We currently use the SMTP server to relay email from the iSeries to Office365 and outlook. We have this setup with the Microsoft connector. It is working fine. Microsoft has announced that they will be requiring OAUTH2.0 by March of 2026. Can SMTP...
3 months ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Submitted

diagcloudconn needs more robust features in testing.

Many times when trying to diagnose an issue between HMC and CMC we are forced to engage IBM support to get access to such common commands as curl or wget or traceroute as they are locked down in the HMC. It is incredibly helpful to either allow ac...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Change of WLM start/restart behave in passive mode

When restart or start Workload Manager WLM the AIX is set internal locks to be shure that no new porcess,fork etc can happen until AIX has checked all running processes again WLM rules. On a multi terrabyte memory machine this can lead to 5-7 minu...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
3 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Submitted

Allow 5733-ICC APIs to be thread safe.

Any one who wanted to use the Cloud APIs in a threaded environment.
3 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

Native UPS Monitoring & Automated Power Fail Handling in IBM Power Systems

In enterprise environments, maintaining uptime during power instability is critical. While IBM Power Systems are highly resilient, integration with UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) devices is still handled mostly at the external infrastructure l...
about 2 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Cross (solution applicable to multiple industries) 0 Submitted

Copy service definition in IWS

Provide the ability to copy an existing service definition, so you don't have to go through all the steps to define a new service when a similar service already exists.
5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

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