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.

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.

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Cloud Management Console

CMC portal: user & security possibility to enable/disable two-step verification independently from IBM ID

The IBM CMC Portal is recording a significant number of failed login attempts by unprivileged accounts, indicating credential stuffing, brute-force attacks, or unauth. access attempts. (see login history in CMC portal) Single-factor auth. is no lo...
6 days ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

PEP2.0 should allow three POWER generations in 1 pool

PEP2.0 currently supports TWO generations of Power hardware (like Power8+9, Power9+10 of Power10+11) in one pool. Suppose you currently have E950 and E1050 in one Enterprise Pool, adding an E1150 to the same pool is not possible. If you want to ke...
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

Stop generating alerts each time "stopsrc -s IBM.SoftwareRM" is run

When IBM.SoftwareRM is stopped gracefully it creates a serviceable event that then alerts notification recipients as configured on the HMC. When we installed the recent HIPER ifix for SoftwareRM across our estate it generated a flood of alerts. We...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

IBM websites remember you but ask MFA repeatedly

I am an IBM champion, also Authorized Program Administrator and Primary Relationship Contact and I also work as engineer with the Support portal, FixCentral etc. That means I login to IBM websites a lot. Luckily most IBM sites I use now use a sing...
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

Notification Details- Call Home

We would like to explore the possibility to get all the details available on this notification such as: Host name of the device, serial number, model, type. with that we can have more information and details at the time that the call home event is...
7 months ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

Cloud Connector Status report also HMC hostname

it's much easier to find HMC hostname during investigation
about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

E-mail about CMC socket subscription expiring lacks vital information

There are e-mails being sent out by CMC to warn us about expiring CMC socket subscriptions. We run into the problem that the e-mail lacks vital information to take immediate action. The e-mail currenty lists the number of sockets that are affected...
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

CMC - Thresholds for used % of the Enterprise Pools base capacity

Within the CMC Enterprise Pools App we are missing a configurable threshold for used % of the Enterprise Pools base capacity. Because the base capacity is already paid and we want to make sure, that we get informed if we getting close to use credi...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Management Console Future consideration

CMC alerting into e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, etc. .

CMC notifies customers by e-mail. However, most customers use a central monitoring application such as Nagios, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, etc.. CMC alerts should also be sent to the customer's monitoring application. Which the IT-Operations team is mo...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

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