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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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Improvement to the DSPPGMREF command

The command currently does not generate information about the commands used in a program.The improvement is to include information about this type of objects and be useful when performing some type of forensic analysis on the IBM i
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Future consideration

Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
10 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 6 Future consideration
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Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Longer SQL statement parameter in cldownload plugin or making it external

The idea of having a longer SQL statement parameter in the cldownload plugin or making it external revolves around enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of SQL queries used within the plugin. Here’s an expanded description of what this could en...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Return previous functionality to manage rw / read-only on virtual media library iso's from the GUI.

HMC users managing the virtual media library from the GUI were impacted when this functionality was removed.
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

vnicserver device needs to signal to phyp when it's shutting down to avoid network outage

Environment:Power9 server with vios 3.1.3.21 pair which host vnicserver devices with backing sriov adapters for the vnic client devices in failover configuration Problem:During shutdown/reboot of the vio server that hosts the active vnicserver dev...
about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Pools 2.0 optimization of credits

When we ordered our E1080_E980 we purchased credits for that pool. When I designed and configured our first private cloud based on E950s and FS7200 I also added credits to this pool. Since the 2.0 pool worked so well those credits are now impossib...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
10 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Security: Add to user configuration option to log in only from selected IP address

Currently, HMC does not allow you to restrict a user's login to a selected IP address. Such an option is available in SSH however it cannot be used on the HMC console. Currently, it is possible to restrict SSH logins (all of them) using the firewa...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow for multiple commands from one cli process.

When creating multiple connections via the acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg command. Each command is run in its own jvm which can take a long time to process when creating lots of connections. If we could string multiple commands into one jvm process thi...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration