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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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Cloud Management Console

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CMC to support dual HMC

Currently we can add two HMC for a power hardware, but i guess it actively uses only one. As soon as the active hmc gets disconnects or frame-hmc connection fails, CMC dont display frame(systems) information all over the place. primarly PEP2 appli...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Needs more information

Enterprise Pools 2.0 access for non-admin users

I would like to enable Enterprise Pools 2.0 app to non-admin users. If you create a new non-admin user and access Edit User panel, Enterprise Pools 2.0 app enablement button is grayed out. The popup message says "Only Admin users can access Enterp...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

Schedule report of missing HIPER/security patches(Ibmi/AIX(VIOS)/Linux

Easy check of missing PTFs/patches Would benefit internal/external customers with precise, clear and easy information of status of the environment. Saves time and provides info in an consistent way.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

CMC, diiferent levels of update warnings

Enhance CMC patchplanning with more values then just red.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Future consideration

PEP 2.0 Support for Novalink/CMC

Request to enhance MCM to support Novalink with PEP 2.0 capacity Credits.
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 5 Needs more information

CMC EP2.0 theme

CMC runs one theme/colors in all menus/areas except for EP2.0. The colors in EP2.0 does not provide a good contrast and therefor a bad experience.
about 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

automatic reports out of CMC

it would be great to receive on a regular base (monthly) automically created reports out of CMC. 1) overview of core and memory usage2) overview of used credits
about 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Not under consideration

Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 - Metered Usage Enhancements

Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 resource sharing and metered usage is a step-change for Power Systems private cloud adoption. To improve it further, more granular control and visibility is required at the host partition level. I'd like to request an en...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 6 Not under consideration

Add threshold notification for EP 2.0 pool base core usage

In the CMC, We want have an option to set threshold (to be notified) for the total base activations consumption.Say If I have 100 Any/OS activations, I want to be notified when consumption reaches 75 cores.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

Better support for RMC and Novalink

Currently, firmware updates rely on an RMC connection between the HMC and the individual AIX/Linux partitions. Also, Cloud Management Console relies on an RMC connection to the individual partitions to obtain some of its data. We would like Novali...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration