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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    Add ability to change font/size in IBM i Access product

    Some of us do are not so young anymore, and do not have the eyesight required to deal with tiny fonts. On the IBM i Access Client Solutions panel, the menu options (File, Edit, View, Actions, etc.) and their drop-down items are in a nicely sized f...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Submitted

    Make pytorch available for install from ACS/Open Source Package Managment.

    It would be much more practical, and much easier to install pytorch/ppc64 from a well known place. As for now, it's really hard to find instructions of where and how to install a version of pytorch, built for the Power PC architecture.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

    VIOSUPGRADE / UPDATEIOS -- Add "Date" and "Time" prefixes to screen output

    Whilst running the update / upgrade (VIOS) commands one cannot easily see "when" a specific piece of screen output was written, was it a second ago or two hours? Having the extra detail displayed on the screen helps with understanding, improves cl...
    3 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Expanding SQL to view certificates assigned to IBM i applications

    In a previous release, IBM i SQL enhancements made it possible to view certificate info from the qsys2.certificate_info table using an SQL statement. The enhancement I am suggesting would take the next step and make it possible to view which certi...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    More visibility into ASP utilization across the system using NCDU and displaying it visually in Navigator

    Often it is challenging to find files that need to be cleaned up on a system; especially since these systems have been around for 40+ years. Using NCDU I can scan the Libraries, DLO, and IFS and see where my disk utilization is and drill down from...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    Search fields e.g. Capacity Monitoring or other search field need logical and,or,not capabilities

    If you want to search for specific patterns etc in Names you need additional logic selection like and,not,or etc. to filter with more precise
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Support of modern remote copy function - Policy-based Replication (PBR)

    FlashSystem reference architectures are now based on Policy-based Replication (PBR). Policy-based Replication replaces Global Mirror, using volume group and no longer consistency group (replication) commands. This new Storage function should be su...
    almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 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...
    4 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Cross (solution applicable to multiple industries) 0 Submitted

    be able to send authlog to an external server

    We need authlog from the hmc sent to an external server (a clm for example) In the rsyslog config on the hmc, their is a config to send them to /var/hsc/log/secure : cat /etc/rsyslog.d/50-hmc-auth.conf => auth.* /var/hsc/log/secure & sto...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Enabling Port VLAN ID Update through VMRM DR using vNIC over SRIOV

    Enable the automatic update of Port VLAN IDs during VMRM DR failover through HMC to ensure network access for virtual machines.
    about 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

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