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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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Backup MFA Server on HMCs

We have implemented MFA on all our HMCs via PowerSC MFA Servers, but in the Multi Factor Authentication configuration of HMC, has only one Server HostName or IP address of PowerSC MFA Server to configure! That means that if we failover to the back...
9 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Sharing of VIOS Upgrade/Update ISO files between HMCs

Dear Sirs, we used the HMC to download and update the VIOS partitons on our Test-Site. Although we locally stored the ISO (on the HMC at the Test-Site), we were not able to transfer it to the HMC at the Production-Site. As we want to be sure to us...
18 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Improve reorganize while active

the reorganize while active mechaniism is a very interesting mechanism and allows you to reorganize files under journal allowing you to clean up many deleted records without closing applications and services. However, the mechanism does not allow...
18 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Email notification to "authorized to create orders" users in Customer Initiated Upgrade whenever an ooCoD engine is activated/deactivated

Activating processors via ooCoD starts the billing process. Many customers stage an ooCoD record to be available "in a pinch" when the need for capacity may be time sensitive. Anyone with access to the SE could turn on engines and start billing wi...
18 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow comments in lan firewall network info in HMC.

Depending on our data center, we have one or more HMCs installed at a location. On each HMC we have to allow many different subnets access in the various rules in the HMC lan firewall config. It's nice that we can input entire subnets in the lan f...
18 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Disable/Deprecate ssh-rsa OpenSSH Host Keys on HMC

ssh-rsa SSH Host Keys were deprecated with OpenSSH 8.2 back in 2020. Can these host keys be disabled by default or a new option be added in the limited shell to be able to manipulate ssh host keys.
25 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

CLI option to switch on/off HMC performance data collection

we need an CLI option to switch on/off/configure HMC performance data collection feature to integrate in system-automation (eg. Ansible).
25 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

ACS automatic temporary file cleanup, please add functionality

Add at least a command line option to instruct ACS to NOT leave temporary files in /tmp if the run was successful and the exit clean. Each process and application if successful should manage its temporary storage properly. We run ACS directly on t...
26 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Longer SQL statement parameter in cldownload plugin or making it external

The idea of having a longer SQL statement parameter in the cldownload plugin or making it external revolves around enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of SQL queries used within the plugin. Here’s an expanded description of what this could en...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

HMC power supply display

Create an option to view the actual status of a POWER supply. Currently, it's impossible to verify their status.
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration