IBM Power Ideas Portal
Hide about this 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Add a new idea Subscribe
Status Not under consideration
Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 12, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

NIC fiber light measurement

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Per Networking I/O Development, we do not have an ethernet-adapter based optics dbM measurement tool for AIX other than diagnostics run with wrap plugs to verify the card and its gbic modules.
However, per Development, it's not out of reason to request this as a feature.

With this said, we would like to suggest that DTNA submit an RFE request (Request for Enhancement). This is something the customer has to submit ( we can't submit).
The request would be as follows:

Request to AIX Development:
Requesting an enhancement to have an Ethernet adapter-based optics dBm measurement tool for AIX while the customer is in configuration steps of their network.
We need to be able to perform diagnostics on these NICs cards (i.e. F/C EN0S) that will provide us light levels ( incoming and outgoing) on the SFPs

Example use Case
1. Fiber optic cable is tensioned around a corner below minimum bend radius, resulting in low TX/RX dBm
2. Fiber optic cable end is contaminated and needs cleaning, resulting in low TX/RX dBm

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 27, 2020

    IBM has evaluated the priority of this enhancement proposal relative to other future product content and determined that this RFE will not be pursued for a future product release

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.