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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    Limit KSYS to discover disks attached to KSYS managed LPARs & using local cache when nothing changed since last discovery

    Name of the software vendor: IBM is the product vendor but the product needs to discover and use EMC storage array disks using Storage Enabler softwareApplication name: VMRM-DR KSYSData store(s) for the application e.g. DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, Open Sou...
    over 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

    CMC: Capability to schedule/push periodic mailers

    - Today, client needs to login to CMC and need to manually pull usage data from CMC console.- In an actual production environment, there are different people responsible for administrator, capacity management & billing. - Access to CMC is desi...
    over 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered

    PVC not savin "running" config to "startup" config after every zone change on Cisco SAN Switches to Preserve over restarts

    PowerVC 1.4.4 Is out of sync on "startup" config on Cisco MDS switches with "Running" config. This may result in loosing the last saved zone changes and its configuration data upon loosing or restarting SAN switches due to various reasons. Support...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

    Ability to migrate LU from thin to thick in Shared Storage Pool

    It would be useful to have a command or automated procedure to migrate an lpar's LU from thin to thick provisioning in VIOS Shared Storage Pools.
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

    Dynamically lock IP addresses for use with PowerVC

    Want to reserve some IP addresses for use by PowerVC and some for use by SCE, but that can change over time.
    about 11 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

    Unable to create VM with less than .1 CPU in PowerVC

    A client has the desire to create a VM with .05 CPU however PowerVC only seems to allow a minimum CPU size of .1 CPU per VM.
    about 11 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

    When inserting RPGLE blank line, Tab key should use free-form tabs

    RDi 9.1: When a blank line is inserted after a blank line (by pressing Enter), the Tab key is using tab stops at every tenth column (where did these come from?), instead of my free-form tab stops (every 3 columns). Since most of the code I write i...
    about 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

    RDi 9.0.1 Outline View - "Output" section

    Would like to have a section added to the outline tree (i.e. "Output Section") so user can jump directly to Output specs in LPex. Also could add the Output fields to the "Fields" section (i.e. "line# (O)) to identify that the field is in the Outpu...
    over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

    Provide safe way to poweroff NovaLink managed system

    Managed system virtualized using NovaLink (Ubuntu 16.04.3) and single VIOS.NOTE: This is the case when smaller server is used. Novalink is installed on VIOS sourced disk. Because of the cross-dependency of the two virtualization components, the on...
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Delivered

    IKE should trigger ODT tunnel for any valid incoming IKE negotiation.

    Incoming non-IKE packets trigger ODT on AIXFor Windows and Linux (StrongSwan) IPsec implementations only valid incoming IKE N/W traffic will trigger the dynamic negotiation of the IKE tunnels on these Operating systems.
    almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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