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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IBM i MULTIPATH SAN BEHAVIOR

Hello IBM i and Storage Teams, Due to an intermittent physical failure of a single SAN switch SFP resulted in significant system impact affecting this media company core business application, users and their customers for an extended period of tim...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Storage 3 Future consideration

RSS - Reopen tabs automatically

With the new IBM i ACS 1.1.9.6 a possibility was introduced to open multiple tabs at once via projects however this was not the idea behind my previous idea https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-3540 I'm therefore so free to request...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Ability to expand storage volumes in the PowerVC Web interface.

Currently it is possible to expand PowerVC managed volumes only by utilising a Rest API call, there is no option to perform this task in the GUI. The option to expand a volume should be available in the GUI. Needing to utilise Rest API for such a ...
9 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

HMC GUI, LPM, Validate/Migrate, drop-down box to select frame

HMC GUI, LPM, Validate/Migrate, drop-down box to select frame This drop-down box has never been sorted. I have many frames so I'm always searching my frames in the list. Could you please sort this list ? This option is part of your development too...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

RFE for PowerVC for migration controls for VM Groups

Requirement is for PowerVC to provide options to migrate a VM Group together, like PowerHA does with Resource Groups, so that related/interdependent VMs can be migrated together when necessary.
9 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Basic subfile/maintenance generator for a given table_schema, and table_name

We have UPDDTA to edit individual records of a file. We have RUNQRY for displaying all file records. It would save a lot of development time when we can have a default built-in subfile handler for any given table. => Shift F8, F9 to move subfil...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Dark Mode For Run SQL Scripts

I would like to be given a dark mode or the ability to control colors for Run SQL Scripts. Between the dark screen of the emulator and dark mode of RDI, it would be awesome to also have a dark theme for Run SQL Scripts. RDI gives the option to app...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

Improve PowerHA SVC/FlashSystem ssh access security model

Today PowerHA requires unrestricted the Admin role via SSH to manage the copy relationships on SVC/FlashSystem family storage. In todays modern security environment this is unacceptable to have a full multitenant array have unrestricted SSH access...
over 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

A system needs to have the ability to call home when the slot on the bus is owned by the operating system (IBMi, AIX, Linux) and there is no hardware error logged as currently a system can only call home

There are cases where an issue has occurred on a system where data cannot pass but no hardware error has been logged. This can affect any adapter that passes data and is owned by the operating system. If this occurs, IBM cannot be automatically no...
8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Needs more information

Docker on AIX

Docker is a technology that allows for applications to be created, deployed and run using containers. This allows applications and services to be built and deployed on any operating system that supports Docker.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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