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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    Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

    With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 7 Future consideration
    144 VOTE

    Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

    When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

    PowerVC Support for selected I/O Group at SVC Host Creation

    We have a customer with a larger number of hosts (> 256) each having 8 FC ports (paths). Because PowerVC for the deployment of new VMs creates the host object on the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in each SVC I/O group the SVC's limit of 2048 ...
    3 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Modernizing WPAR Technology in AIX (Linux-like Containerization)

    I would like to address the future of containerization in IBM AIX. Since the proposal for "Docker on AIX" did not receive approval, I suggest an alternative approach: investing in the development of WPAR technology to align it with modern containe...
    9 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration
    124 VOTE

    HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

    At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    Add a compiler directive to emit a message to the compiler listing

    Under special circumstances it can be useful to add a user defined warning or error to the compiler listing - even to the extend, that a module should not compile. A new compiler directive "/MESSAGE" should be introduced like this: /IF NOT DEFINED...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Please add option to nfs client to let the server manage the group info / equivalent to -g or --manage-gids

    Dear Sir or Madam, With AIX as client to mount NFS Shares users are not able to access data which are shared via NFS. In my case users have more than 16 groups they belong to and need to access their files. Groups can not be eliminated, unfortunat...
    5 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Add documentation option to a SQL service in RSS

    VS code has the brilliant option when hovering over a SQL service in a SQL request it allows you to search IBM documentation for this specific SQL service. This idea is about adding the same kind of functionality to ACS RSS if possible.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

    Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Drop down lists to have a search function.

    Currently, to find an item in the drop down lists in PowerVC, you have to look for the item that you need manually, there is no search function. In large environments with many projects and storage templates this becomes cumbersome. Having search ...
    about 2 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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