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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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Provide standardise approach for lsmpio metadata expansion

Currently there is no public information about what extended metadata attributes can be obtained from the storage to facilitate OS admin manipulation of storage.For example lsmpio -q presents on some devices the name of the volume and there could ...
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Make PowerVC installer a step-by-step

The process for installing PowerVC is scripted, however you can see it's made of several step. The problem is that if installation is broken for some error, it can't be re-started because the pre-install checks say that PowerVC is already installe...
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

AIX mksysb not work on rootvg disk with multiple paths

1. Before backing up system we are required to run pprootdev fix . If you do not execute this command, backup process will fail right away.2. After running pprootdev fix, we back up host using mksysb;3. Because the AIX OS is not currently designed...
about 6 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Provide ability for virtual optical devices larger than 4.3GB

Using Virtual Media Library the optical device is restricted to 4.3GB in size. It then prompts for a second volume for images larger than 4.3GB.Requesting possibility to have virtual optical device increased beyond 4.3GB
over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

Support iSCSI targets other than just AIX

The AIX iSCSI sw initiatior problems are only supported when the iSCSI target is also AIX. This makes iSCSI a non-option in the AIX world. IBM needs to support the iSCSI sw initiator as a standards-based adapter for it to be relevant.
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SYSTOOLS.CHECK_SYSROUTINE & CHECK_SYSCST

Enhance SYSTOOLS.CHECK_SYSROUTINE & CHECK_SYSCST to include a "remote schema" parameter. Use Case: Allow easy comparison of SQL objects in test schemas & multi-tenant environments.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

AIX kernel change to batch memory pool rebalance for DLPAR vCPU adds/removes

Today for every 8 logical CPUs, the memory pools are being rebalanced. There is serialization if the lpar is a shared processor lpar, such that rebalancing can cause a CPU add/delete operation to wait until the rebalancing is completed. This can b...
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Restore Option needed - addition, disable experation

When restoring a PowerVC backup, we expired 100's of VM's at the same time. There needs to be a switch to disable expiration on a restore.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Non-root volume groups not automatically imported and varied on after Versioned WPAR restore

After a successfull restore of Versioned AIX 5.3 WPAR, I have noticed that any non-rootvg volume groups i.e. data volume groups are not automatically imported and varied on. In our testing, we are restoring the vWPAR back onto the same Global LPAR...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

HMC Power Down frame option

When powering down the frame from the HMC, there is an insufficient and often confusing process that can lead to serious issues. When power down is selected, a pop-pup is displayed that gives a user an option to confirm or cancel the process. In a...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Not under consideration

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