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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    FIDO2 U2F Support as additional MFA options (without PowerSC)

    Easys to use. HMC UI /CLI login based on multi-factor and passwordless authentication without the overpowering PowerSC.
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

    Ansible operation for NIM

    Almost every AIX environment has a NIM server as central point of management. Ansible requires ssh connection from Ansible controller to Ansible-managed systems. It is possible to unite both NIM as a central management server for AIX infrastructur...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Under review

    Enable F4 on the remove image catalogue entry so KEEP can be set to *YES

    While the RMVIMGCLGE provides an option and is the default to KEEP(*YES) the associated image catalogue file the 4=Remove option in WRKIMGCLGE provides no option to keep the associated file. This is inconsistent and has resulted in image files bei...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Under review

    Add Function Usage to RTVSYSINF

    It would be great if the Function Usage (WRKFCNUSG) values could be integrated into the Retrieve System Information (RTVSYSINF) data collector. This would simplify data transfer to new systems via Save/Restore without the risk of forgetting values...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

    Cloud Connector STATUS needs a better method of identifying HMCs

    The STATUS tab for Cloud Connector ( under Setup ) does not provide a simple and consistent method of identifying the HMCs. It would be helpful to have an additional column that contains the name of the HMC to keep consistency with other screens a...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Under review

    Add 5250 and VTxxx web console to FSP

    Please, add a web-console or telnet/ssh console to the FSP for single-LPAR systems.
    9 months ago in Power Systems Design 2 Under review

    Sending Apache Server access and error logs to a Syslog Server

    Enable sending of Apache Server access and error logs on IBM i to a local or remote Syslog Server
    10 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Under review

    We should come up with reference architectures and solution blueprints to create IBM Power system appliances for IBM and Non-IBM Software stack e.g. IBM CloudPak, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, EDB, MongoDB etc.

    Many customers (SMEs and mainly project teams in the Enterprises) want to deploy mission-critical applications, database, and middleware solutions with high availability, performance, and above all security, and to integrate IBM and open-source so...
    6 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Cross (solution applicable to multiple industries) 0 Under review

    Configuration rules for AIX (like those for VIOS)

    Would it be possible to make the very useful configuration rules function that is avaliable in VIOS avalaible in AIX? This would be very useful for setting customised defaults for different devices within AIX without altering the predefined ODM. W...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Under review

    PEP 2.0 - Ability to disable/offline resources(CPU/Memory)

    Currently PEP 2.0 activates all installed resources. This creates lot of issues with our capacity management, performance monitoring and high availability. Please have an option to disable specific number of CPU and memory on the frame.
    about 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console 4 Under review

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