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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    Set lpar name to hostname in PowerVM

    We would like to have the option to use just the shortname for the PowerVM deployment in Nova. This would allow us to create Lpars via PowerVC identical to manually created ones. According to internal discussion, this is currently not possible as ...
    3 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    PowerVC appliance, - external system health monitoring for the control plane

    PowerVC classis has an open OS, as such OS administrators and monitor and setup alerts for any performance issues on the control plane, PowerVC appliance is a closed system, as such requires a supported hook to externalize monitoring the system he...
    4 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    PowerVC backup and restore includes ldap data

    PowerVC backup and restore should include ldap configuration details and role assignments.
    5 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Add support to update PowerVC Fabric managed keys in the Appliance

    PowerVC Fabric certificate replacement may require copying certifates into the trust store as well as manually copying to the PowerVC opt folders
    10 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Add support for signed certificate installation for PowerVC Appliance

    PowerVC customers need to provide a signed certificate for accessing PowerVC UI, PowerVC Appliance does not provide a feature to import the customer signed certificates This can be manually circumvented by engaging support to PESH to install, howe...
    10 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Enable scheduling automatic Backup via PowerVC Web UI

    Taking automatic Backups of PowerVC ensures that in worst-case szenarios the Company is able to redeploy PowerVC with minimal time & reconfiguration effort. In previous Versions admins had the functionality to configure automatic backup schedu...
    11 days ago in PowerVC 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

    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

    Brocade san fabric strong encryption support

    Changing security requirements impacts host keys as saved in powervc SSH HostKeyAlgorithms : ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256 > SSH PubKeyAlgorithms : ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,...
    27 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    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

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