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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Hardware Management Console

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    Red flash and text "RMC connection: None?

    HMC Version 9 Release 1 Service pack 931Client has a red flash on all IBM i partitions and the text “RMC connection: None” As I understand only VIOS, AIX and Linux is using RMC connections and not IBM i, so it is very misleading to have the red fl...
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Is a defect

    HMC Rest API - Additional metrics

    Currently the HMC Rest API provides many metrics when a VM/LPAR is configured to use 'Shared Processors' - see attached file:• 'Metrics for LPAR using Shared Processors' But when a VM/LPAR is configured to use 'Dedicated Processors' these metrics ...
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Not under consideration

    Email notification to "authorized to create orders" users in Customer Initiated Upgrade whenever an ooCoD engine is activated/deactivated

    Activating processors via ooCoD starts the billing process. Many customers stage an ooCoD record to be available "in a pinch" when the need for capacity may be time sensitive. Anyone with access to the SE could turn on engines and start billing wi...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Allow comments in lan firewall network info in HMC.

    Depending on our data center, we have one or more HMCs installed at a location. On each HMC we have to allow many different subnets access in the various rules in the HMC lan firewall config. It's nice that we can input entire subnets in the lan f...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    a move to function for resouces

    to dynamically move a resource CPU,MEMORY,IO to a partition it takes 14-25 mouse clicks there is no direct way to move a device
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Monitor the real-time power usage of the managed host through HMC

    How to query the real-time power consumption of the host power supply through the hmc command line ?
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Disable/Deprecate ssh-rsa OpenSSH Host Keys on HMC

    ssh-rsa SSH Host Keys were deprecated with OpenSSH 8.2 back in 2020. Can these host keys be disabled by default or a new option be added in the limited shell to be able to manipulate ssh host keys.
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Add "make bootable" option to Format Media for USB Flash Drives

    As the 7063 range of HMCs has no physical DVD, using USB Flash Drives for upgrading to a new release has become more popular. At the moment, we require a Linux workstation to USB flash drive so that it is bootable. For those not familiar with the ...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Simplify HMC update

    Please make HMC update similar to Firmware update.Ability to download directly from IBM/local and update to the latest in same level or upgrade to next level.something simple like chrome browser update.
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Option for creating vswitches in Enhanced+ HMC GUI

    With recent migration to Enhanced+ GUI, we've lost the ability to create vswitches from GUI with no connected to HMC NIC We're creating them from HMC CLI with chhwres, but it would be far more intuitive to have an option to simply create an vswitc...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

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