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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    Support additional memory on 4-core server models. 128GB or even 256GB.

    Over time POWER processors have gained capability. From 4,200 CPW on a POWER6 to over 20,000 CPW on today's Power10. When POWER7 was introduced the CPU went from 4,200 CPW per core to 6,000 per core AND supported memory on low end servers went f...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 1 Submitted

    chdef should be able to set queue_depth defaults for iscsi non-mpio disks.

    We use ISCSI disks and do not have multi path storage available to us, so we would need to set the queue_depth for all newly created iscsi disks. However, we have to use chdev to accomplish this manually for each disk instead of just setting the d...
    8 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Improve the performance of PDI Job Watcher Interval Details

    When investigating Job Watcher data, Interval Details allows you to get to call stacks and SQL statements. However, it takes a very long time for interval details to display - upwards of a minute or more; it is so slow as to be nearly unusable. Th...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

    Basic subfile/maintenance generator for a given table_schema, and table_name

    We have UPDDTA to edit individual records of a file. We have RUNQRY for displaying all file records. It would save a lot of development time when we can have a default built-in subfile handler for any given table. => Shift F8, F9 to move subfil...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.

    Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.
    8 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    Keep the filters up

    In capacity monitoring for example, I would like to keep my filters actives when clicking on one of the objects of the filter and going back
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Option to log stdout/stderr with swrole

    One of the advantages of sudo over AIX RBAC is ability to record commands and their stdout/stderr - see logio in sudo documentations and sudoreplay. We need similar functionality in AIX RBAC. When user activates a role using swrole and the logging...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Submitted

    Search for Multiple Tags

    Add functionality into the IBM Cloud Management Console to search for more than a single tag. This would allow for more granular tracking & reporting.
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add UI presentation page for power consumption showing all or selected servers

    Better overview if all systems power usage is presented (or selected group of servers) in one page instead of going to each system and show only htat system. Less time spent for admin to check each system power usage one at a time.
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

    updateios breaks the update due to network disruption

    You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS011570960Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.4.10 on top of his system 3.1.3.14.During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to network dis...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

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