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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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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.

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Hardware Management Console

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Show progress of update download

Imagine you have a Power server powered off to install a disruptive firmware update.Wouldn't it be nice to have some kind of idea about how long the install will take?I miss having a progress bar with file size, and estimated remaining download ti...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

remove user "anonymous" from BMC

remove user "anonymouse" from BMC. ." they are saying that the anonymous user is part of the design ( all though not in use ) " so why i am not able to delete this user. .We will have discussions because of this nonsense-useless-user on every secu...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Improve HMC Update from IBM site

When Updating HMC from remote FTP server, we need to enter server credentials. Please include a selection for using IBM default site public.dhe.ibm.com and add more info to the list of available downloads. For example the release date, and for fix...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

HMC should give a warning message when reducing current configuration resources of stopped LPAR by stealing process

When HMC needs to steal cpu or memory resources from stopped LPARs in order to fullfill a LPM request or a LPAR start operation because there are not enough completely unused ("free") resources in managed system, current configuration of stopped L...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Several warnings when shutting down a Power-System

When a LPAR is selected on a Power-system, the selected Hardware (Power-system) is still active to operations, like "Power Off".In our unit, it happened twice that the operator wanted to shutdown a LPAR, and unfortunately shut down the whole syste...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

HMC Enhanced Interface, Allow DLPAR of resource that is owned by another LPAR where that LPAR is not active

In the Enhanced HMC Interface, you cannot add an adaptor that is owned by another LPAR, even when that LPAR is not activated. This is possible in both Classic and Command-Line Interfaces. This is particularly important when sharing SAS or Fibre ad...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

"Change User Interface Settings? option is available only in classic GUI, can we have it in Enhanced GUI?

The web page https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/HW4M4/p8ha1/changeuserinterfacesettings.htm says he can customize the user interface settings. He would like to change the default views to this above, using Enhanced GUI with V9.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

HMC Scanning Tool

HMC Scanning Tool - HMC is a black box with no IBM or third party tool we are aware of. IBM should develop a scanning software which can scan HMC and report the vulnerabilities found.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 7 Future consideration

Provisioning LPAR ID in GUI screen during LPM process

We just completed our test system migration using the GUI LPM. It was smooth as [Deleted] and worked like charm. One major drawback. The partition ID changed and not under our control. Thus new partition on target system comes up with random Lpar ...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Read CPU Feature on HMC via API

The HMC API is a great way to gather information about systems and partitions, including processor pools and profile information. We're using this to collect information from many HMCs in a single database. The processor feature is currently not a...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration