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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    Script to change signed certificates on PowerSC MFA server.

    It will be easy and mutliple step executions could be avoided providing a comprehensive way to change the CA signed certificates on MFA servers. We should be just able to provide the .pem certicate file to the script and the script should then con...
    about 2 years ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

    HMC delivering rperf calculation

    Would simplify and speed up the process to gather this info, which will be helpful in the sizing of new customer environments and comparison of customer environments.
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add os license expiration as an optional column on list of partitions on the HMC

    Add OS_license_expiration as an optional column available on the HMC list of partitions. See this link https://imgur.com/gEpL1ZO
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Add a "Run Now" option on an HMC scheduled task

    As part of HMC patching it's good to take a backup before after so a recovery point is available. Where the HMC has a scheduled backup already defined it would be convenient to have a "Run now" option against the schedule entry in the GUI.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    CLI command to list LPAR description and Group tags

    HMC V10R1 GUI allows you to define LPAR/VM description and group tags. This is wonderful feature specially on a multi-tenancy system. However, there is no CLI command to list this information. We use the CLI command for ease of reporting.
    almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Download I/O Firmware to HMC

    It would be nice to have the option to download a copy of the I/O Firmware to the HMC like how you can with a VIOS image. That way you don't have to use the IBM Service Web Site or an FTP server. It would make it faster to update I/O Cards if you ...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Create HMC JSON api

    I'm wondering if it's possible to create new HMC's API working with JSON and not with XML. Other appliances (for example Storwize) are using this language for rest APIs.
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    AIX LDAP Client (secldapclntd) Performance Enhancement

    Current AIX secldapclntd implementation consumes significant resources and provides slow respond under larger load (thousends of clients). More info in support cases TS009747392 and TS009832647.
    about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Partition Virtual Storage Diagram - update label from OS400 to IBM i

    The Partition Virtual Storage Diagram produces an excellent diagram - but it shows the partition name and labels it as OS400. Rather out of date
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    CLI command power on / off Multiple specified Managed Systems at same time

    Currently the latest Firmware ONLY allows to power on / off a single Managed System or ALL Managed Systems currently managed by this HMC. Requesting to have ability, in CLI, to Power On / Off multiple specified Managed Systems at the same time, li...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

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