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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    Power Supply "AC resume" message enhancement for P7/8/9 CEC and IO Drawer

    Existing P7/8/9 do not have power supply resume message from HMC. and the AC loss message are only prompt once. Customer do have not any methodology to remote monitor if the CEC / IOC power supply status except go into the data-center to check the...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    Handle VMs removed from HMC but not VMRDR

    VMs removed from the HMC need to be removed automatically from KSYS or a warning displayed about the "orphaned" VM during the discover process.
    about 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Submitted

    PEP 2.0 Delete Pool 2FA

    Currently, a PEP 2.0 pool can be deleted with a single click of a button and an acknowledgement. I would suggest to add a 2FA (2nd factor authentication via email etc) before any pool can be deleted to eliminate the chance of a mistake.
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Backport PCM FPIN congestion mechanism to AIX 7.2

    We have noticed that in an environments with FPIN notifications enabled and high read rates and a larger storage throughput capacity that host ingestion capacity, the behaviour of AIX 7.3 and AIX 7.2 are quite different, leading in AIX 7.2 to scen...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    While debugging in Visual Studio Code (SEP), able to mouseover an RPG variable starting with a special character

    Currently, the mouseover only works for RPG program variables that do not start with a special character. It would be a great idea to add the same capability for RPG variables that start with a special character.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    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

    Add netmasks into ftpaccess.ctl

    /etc/ftpaccess.ctl controls access to FTP service on AIX. Now you can specify only single hosts in the "allow:" line, separated by commas. Netmask values like "10.0.0.0/8" or "10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0" can't be used. FTP doesn't recognize hosts in the n...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    "enhance" capture lpar as template to actually include all properties of the lpar

    Currently, vscsi storage (except for SSP) is omitted during capture. Including all storage from source lpar would make the feature do what it says on the tin.
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

    At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 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

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