Skip to Main Content
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).


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.

Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories PowerHA
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 14, 2020

Simple green-screen 'Readiness' command for PowerHA

Provide an OS/400 command that will check the readiness of a PowerHA configuration and return a 'ready' or 'not ready/attention' response.


Use Case:

Monitoring a PowerHA mirroring configuration is a manual process using green-screen or Web Navigator. Messages are posted if action is required, but there is no easy way to 'prove' that everything is working normally. This is something we have been asked by management at several customers.
Lab Services provides a readiness command in their CopyToolkit. Running the command provides a one line summary stating that the configuration is 'switch ready'.
Having this ability in PowerHA would not only be helpful for operators, but could provide an audit point to management.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Feb 10, 2022

    The PowerHA team is continuing to use votes and comments from others in the community to help prioritize this request. We continue to welcome additional feedback on how the data returned will be used. For example, is it to build historical reports, knowing at the moment in time the command is run PowerHA is ready to switch, or some other use case? This feedback will help us build a solution that best solves the challenges described.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Oct 16, 2020

    The PowerHA team will use this request as input to planning but no commitment is made or implied. The request will be updated in the future if the request is implemented. The PowerHA team will use votes and comments from others in the community to help prioritize this request.