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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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FSCK on a mounted filesystem

There should be an option to run an online fsck on a mounted filesystem to detect any filesystem corruption.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

BRMS needs to be able to append on media from different LPARs.

BRMS being able to append backups from multiple systems on a single tape. Use Case: With customers using multiple LPARs with small ASPs we need to be able to append multiple daily backups from different LPARs on a single tape to reduce the number ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Not under consideration

Within the LDAP configuration we would like to deactivate the non-secure PORT 389 and only allow the PORT 636 to be active.

Our common practice is to inactivate non-secure PORTs. We have an Enterprise Information Security team that performs RAPID 7 scans across our systems looking for non-secure ports. Within the Tivoli Directory Server for IBM i we want to inactivate ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Not under consideration

Include Left Hand Indicators in Outline

Please include Left Hand indicators in the Outline. they currently don't get picked up. Use Case: .
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Future consideration

Allow variables defined with like(...) to be used as embedded SQL host variables

Variables defined with like(...) should be usable as embedded SQL host variables. Allowing only variables defined with a specific datatype makes for more difficult application maintenance.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

BMC inband local ID. User needs locked down

For 7063-CR2 HMCs, there requires a HMC-to-BMC Inband Communications Credentials to allow for periodic monitoring of hardware problem events and other management console functions .This is local user. By default, root account is used for this purp...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Consolided Capacity monitoring view

In Capacity Monitoring/Performances page, CPU installed, Available, Allocated, Actived can only be shown in each Power view not in the main page (only core usage and cores available). To have a consolided view (with csv export) could be usefull fo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

PowerVC -Login-GUI - and CLI customization

The GUI-look is identical for all PowerVCs. This is sometimes very confusing if you own more than one PowerVC and each is steering a different environment of machines/VMs..To distinguish the different PowerVCs the simplest & cheapest solution ...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Enhance GUI "view details" information

The "view details" button available in the "Events" window should show useful information or better point to the real problem rather than provide generic information.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Clearer error message when not enough resources at remote site

Make the resulting error clearer about not having sufficient resources at the remote site to host all the local VMs.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release