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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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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.

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CLI option to switch on/off HMC performance data collection

we need an CLI option to switch on/off/configure HMC performance data collection feature to integrate in system-automation (eg. Ansible).
20 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Removal of 4-Core Limit for IBM-i VMs on the S1022

Description: As a forward-thinking organization leveraging IBM-i on the S1022 server, we are consistently seeking ways to enhance performance, optimize resource utilization, and meet our increasing workload demands. In light of this, we submit the...
6 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 9 Under review

Give the possibility to use CREATE TYPE statement

Add unique constraint on a field. For example : Create a weakly typed distinct type named BONUS that is based on an INTEGER data type and represents a percentage which cannot exceed 100. CREATE TYPE BONUS AS INTEGER WITH WEAK TYPE RULES CHECK(VALU...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add capability of defining subgroups for Compliance page

For usability in large environments it would behelpfull to be able to create subgroups on the Compliance page. Here an example: Group: SAP - Sub-Group: SAP-Test SAP-QA SAP-Prod
about 1 month ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Add installer option to select alternate adapter to slot 3

Clients would like to install novalink in greenfield environments and select the slot used.
5 days ago in PowerVM NovaLink 0 Submitted

support web portal interface on separate vlan (network) interface

Current situation with HMC and LKU is the following: we have two networks 1. administrative (admin) LAN (non-routed LAN and is used to communicate with HMCs, LPARs and NIM environment). So every LPAR, HMC and NIM server is connected to this LAN. T...
5 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

NIM-HTTP-Service: Feature to change the temporary download location

Currently a small package installation via NIM-HTTP will cause a download of the whole lpp_source (>8GB) into /tmp/_nim_dir_$$. This is very inefficient, slow and always needs lot's of space in /tmp. A small and quick feature gain would be a po...
5 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Allow unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks associated with a virtual machine at a secondary (disaster recovery) site to be omitted during the discover/verify process, enabling disaster recovery operations.

Allowing unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks for a DB2 virtual machine using a DB2 tie-breaker disk at a disaster recovery (DR) site will enable us to fully automate the failover from the primary to the secondary site.
17 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

HMC Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode

HMC should have a Patch Management: Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode. IBM should provide a easy way for Patch Management. System Firmware and Adapter microcode report in one tool (something Microcode Discovery tool...
12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 13 Planned for future release

HMC power supply display

Create an option to view the actual status of a POWER supply. Currently, it's impossible to verify their status.
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Needs more information