Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Hardware Management Console

Showing 390

HMC - Permit use of IMM for power operations and remote console

HMCs current ship with an IMM, but customers are told not to use them. We would like the IMM to be a supported feature and would additionally like the "remote control" (virtual KVM) feature to be enabled.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Option for loading new/different profile on next/unplanned IPL

HMC should provide an option, where one can select a certain profile to be loaded on next reboot (which can be triggered manually or by a system crash)
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Not under consideration

Enhance VPN proxy function for HMC

1) We know the HMC does not allow the user to modify the VPN properties from PMR discussion * David Dilling & Nguyen Nguyen )2) HSBC needs to somehow route VPN traffic like this below. I used the term "VPN proxy" but really it can just be a no...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

No warning for Callhome possible for vHMC products it self

vHMC version 8.8.4 and 8.8.5 Customer uses the callhome wizard in the vHMC (Virtual HMC) when installing this product.At the end of the wizard, he gets a possibility to run a test event. This event hangs for ever, as this vHMC is not allowed to do...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Is a defect

HMC user profiles policy

Hello, I was trying to find a way to setup the user profiles on the HMC to automatically be disabled after x amount of tries with the wrong password. However, the way I understand it, the HMC's local password policy does not have this capability. ...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

Resource role permissions should be transfered to new system during LPM

Current situation: When permission to a specific LPAR is defined in a given resource role, permission is automatically given to the hosting server. If the LPAR is migrated to another hosting server, permission to this new server is not given autom...
27 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Create CLI command that shows the same Virtual fiber data as displayed in HMC GUI.

Currently when logged into V10 HMC code gui when you select an lpar -> select adapter view then the virtual fiberchannel adapter tab it shows a table with the following details: Virtual IO server, client server adapter, location and the pair of...
27 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Put Physical Optical Devices back in HMC GUI

In using only 1 DVD or RDX on POWER10 Servers, HMC Code V10R3M1060 and above left out the ability to See and manage Physical Optical from Virtual Storage Management. Systems with large number of LPAR's are sharing 1 DVD or RDX successfully until 1...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Return the Utility CoD Processor Capacity Setting - Unreported processor minutes.

When using Utility CoD processors it is important to know how may minutes have been used.
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC REST API: add endpoint to get Power system CoD

Add an endpoint to the HMC REST API to get CoD data like it can be done from HMC CLI by the command: lscod -m {Power_System_name} -t bill -r mem of course also for CPU: -r proc and with flag: -F activated_onoff_resources
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted