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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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Hardware Management Console

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HMC V8.85 Locked user after inactivity is difficult to reset

After setting user to 1 day expiration for inactivity the initial results were what I expected. Login with id and it was locked. 1) I set the id inactivity to 0 and clicked OK all the way through then before trying to log in with that id I set the...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

visual display on HMC for server health

HMC displays on an image the health of the server, for at lest:-fans-Electric Power
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Allow ids on HMC's to not have a usable password.

Currently, we cannot setup an ID we must set a password to it. Recently, we have wanted to enable ID provisioning team to be able to manage ID's on the HMC's. They wish to use private / public key access via SSH exclusively, and as such we would l...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

New quick fetch property for HMC REST

I'd like to request new quick fetch property for SharedProcessorPoolhttps://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/POWER8/p8ehl/apis/SharedProcessorPool.htm Currently only PoolName quick property is available, I'd like to have also Pool size as qu...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Need FQDN support in CMC instead of native IP Addresses

IBM CMC is using three server for HMC/CMC connecting to Bluemix CMC Console.boschgermany-powercloud.eu-de.mybluemix.net Port 443 HTTPS149.81.75.251 Port 443 HTTPS161.156.149.119 Port 443 HTTPSWe need for all thre a FQDN and not IP Adr.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Classic View

La vue classique devait être trop simple à utiliser, IBM nous impose à présent la vue etendue+ sans avoir le choix lors de la connexion.On passe son temps à chercher ce que l'on utilise depuis plus de 10 ans.La navigation n'est pas intuitive
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

The creation of vFC adapters with automatic generation of the vWWNs should check, if the vWWNs to be assigned are not alread

The creation of vFC adapters with automatic generation of the vWWNs should check, if the vWWNs to be assigned are not already in use, at least on the Managed Systems managed by the same HMC.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC File perms on /var/log/messages

File permissions of -rw-r----- on the /var/log/messages file do not allow any users other than hscroot to read the file. We require all HMC users to authenticate with their own accounts (in the hmcsuperadmin role).
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Command to import/export/edit an LPAR's 'Description' field now available in the Enhanced UI

It would be great to be able to import from / export to CSV the data in the LPAR's 'description' field that is now available in the Enhanced UI.
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

HMC WIldcard Certificate Support

We are getting crap from providers now that having an HMC with a self signed certificate is no longer acceptable. Such a device may be banned from their equipment racks and it now violates various requirements. It's not just the HMC of course it's...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered