Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 220

Show pcmprocusage (deductidle) status on the Capacity Monitoring (CM) application.

CM on CMC shows uploaded PCM data, but it doesn't show whether idle cycles are deducted at the time or not. It would be great if: 1) CM shows the current state of deductidle flag on the HMC(s). This could be also shown on the Cloud Connector statu...
11 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

redefining functions in header files - do it the right way

When functions in header files need to be redefined (e.g. to get new default behavior),this should NOT be done by just renaming them with a simple '#define func_new func_old'.Instead, macros should be used like it was done for older XL C/C++ compi...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enable PowerHA Replication for PowerTech Products

PowerTech Products are currently only installed on *SYSBASE, They Recommended replication of Certain Objects but i donot have the Option to add it to PowerHA. Here are the Objects that they are recommending to replicate for Authority Broker: Step ...
5 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

Add More Resource type to Replication - ADDCADMRE

*DTAARA, *FILE, *OUTQ, *DEVD, *LIB also should be added to Monitoried resoucrses since some third party aplpication requires certain Objects to be replicated across ALL LPARs, inorder to maintain User Profiles, Data etc. Most of these objects only...
5 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Option to log stdout/stderr with swrole

One of the advantages of sudo over AIX RBAC is ability to record commands and their stdout/stderr - see logio in sudo documentations and sudoreplay. We need similar functionality in AIX RBAC. When user activates a role using swrole and the logging...
6 months ago in AIX 1 Submitted

updateios breaks the update due to network disruption

You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS011570960Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.4.10 on top of his system 3.1.3.14.During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to network dis...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

Power Supply "AC resume" message enhancement for P7/8/9 CEC and IO Drawer

Existing P7/8/9 do not have power supply resume message from HMC. and the AC loss message are only prompt once. Customer do have not any methodology to remote monitor if the CEC / IOC power supply status except go into the data-center to check the...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

Graphic tool or sql service to know the percentage of use of the tapes.

Currently there is no tool or any sql service that helps to know the percentage of use/free is a tape device. For now there is only this old method to calculate it. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-much-data-and-how-much-free-space-available-...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Submitted

Telnet Server Attributes for V7R4

Currently there is no API to get telnet server attributes or SQL services in V7R4.The use case for this is for system parmeters docummentation. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1119123
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Add lpar status to IBM Safe Guarded Copy screen

IBM Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) See attached WRKSGCPY screen Before we try to recover to a SGC, or before we try to end recovery, we need to know that the recovery lpar is powered off. Add some function to the WRKSGCPY screen to see that.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted