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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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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    Add Group-Tags in dynamic inventory in powervm_inventory

    Hello, Grouptags are a cool feature in the HMC GUI. Unfortunately, they are no longer available via the CLI. -> https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-554 It would be great to have this feature in the dynamic HMC Ansible inventory ...
    2 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add a toggle on the HMC Partitions > Usage > Processor usage panel to omit Idle cpu cycles (like on the Perf. Capacity Monitoring/PCM Dashboard > Processor usage HMC display).

    Despite the technical explanation that the Partitions usage display reflects hypervisor dispatch time, which includes idle time whenever a partition is scheduled on a core, even if the OS is not doing productive work, no one cares to be flagged fo...
    3 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    add CLI option to GUI-feature : "Schedule-management" jobs

    setting up "Schedule-management" jobs is currently a GUI-only feature. (V11R1M1111) add a CLI functionality to this feature. and a clear logging/messaging for active or expired schedule jobs.
    5 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Automate add or update of Certificate instead of manual process in DCM

    A new process is being implemented reducing the number of days a certificate will be valid. Apple, Google and others are already implementing this. https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days In 2 week...
    11 days ago in IBM i / Security 2 Submitted

    Add logging of ssh Sessions to lssvcevents -t console command

    Hi, it would be nice to log information about users connecting via commandline (ssh) to HMC. Currently only Weblogin Events are listed for type console. For audit purposes every login needs to be recognized. mfg. ku
    12 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Develop a way to signon via QSECOFR account with a password less solution for ACS, Console and web-based applications.

    This is To Comply with Audit requirement to enforce all Privilege Access accounts to move away from visible Passwords .
    18 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    Add "Inband" instead of empty Space in HMC GUI when Inband is in use

    If inband is in use on P11 machine you see only empty space instead of an IP Address....maybe you can add the word Inband into the IP Address field when Inband is in place rather IP Address. Thx vince
    19 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Create serviceable events support for all Power Systems not only Power 11

    ich beziehe mich auf die kürzlich veröffentlichte Funktion zur Erstellung von Service-Cases direkt über das HMC-Interface. Diese Neuerung ist ein hervorragender Schritt, um die Fehlerbehebungszeiten zu verkürzen und den Prozess der Datensammlung z...
    30 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    IBM i Minimum password length user level

    On IBM i, the minimum password length is controlled by the system value QPWDMINLEN, which applies uniformly to all user profiles across the platform. While this provides centralized control, it does not allow differentiated password policies based...
    30 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

    for the call home facility of the HMC, allow an addition of a certificate for proxy use

    there is ability to add a proxy for access to the internet, however it is necessary to add a certificate for that call home connection to be encrypted, such that the proxy server can decrpyt prior to making the connection to essuport.ibm.com
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

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