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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Hardware Management Console

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    Support vHMC on Openshift Virtualisation

    Hi, The vHMC supports VMware and KVM. Where customers have an on-premises x86 based openshift environment it would be good to run the vHMC on Openshift Virtualisation. Our use case is that we are planning to migrate off VMware to Openshift Virtual...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Sorting by date / time information should work correctly

    Within HMC Serviceable Events Manager panel user can sort information using selection of each individual column.But: sorting algorithm looks like to be based on alphabetical order for every column ....even for ordering based on column "Last Report...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    HMC GUI Darkmode

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    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    HMC delivering LPM information from LPM operations through CLI, REST API

    Would be helpful for customers not having a CMC to track and or troubleshoot LPM processes in more detail.
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Security: Add to user configuration option to log in only from selected IP address

    Currently, HMC does not allow you to restrict a user's login to a selected IP address. Such an option is available in SSH however it cannot be used on the HMC console. Currently, it is possible to restrict SSH logins (all of them) using the firewa...
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    See current status of IBM Power servers power supplies though cli and web gui.

    we do often need to go onsite to inspect Power supplies in our 980 AFTER Power failures to Make sure they are ok. Please Make it possible to see it from the hmc.
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Need HMC function opening a PMR and upload pedbg etc. to IBM

    We would like to see function via CLI and GUI to create a PMR Salesforce ticket at IBM and to upload pedbg and other collections to the ticket systems in a new or already existing PMR
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    HMC delivering CPU detail through CLI, REST API

    Key points:- Operational Efficiency: Direct access to CPU speed via HMC (CLI/REST API) eliminates the need for agents on client LPARs, simplifying workflows and reducing operational overhead.- Resource Optimization: Bypassing agents frees up LPAR ...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Emergency pedbg package

    Since the pedbg package it growing with the new HMC versions and with new features it can be up to 7 GB file size. When a customer is having a managed system or partition issue that affects his production, there is no need for information that is ...
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Option to have 'key:value' pair tags in Power HMC.

    HMC V10R3 allows to define LPAR description and group tags, but it is not possible to create the tags in the 'key:value' format. This is a standard format on other platforms and already adopted on IBM Cloud. There are several modernization, monito...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

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