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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,

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  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.


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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

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Add make, model, serial number to subscriptions tab

Under "Inventory" -> "Subscription", add the make, model, and serial number to the "Subscription Details". As it is today, we have 6 machines all with "2" cores. From this screen, it is impossible to know which of my 6 machines is expiring soon...
3 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Pop-Up Values in PEP 2.0 graphs for CPU and Memory

Show values in pop-up when hovering over the individual graph values in the "Core Usage" and "Memory Usage" graphs. IBM says they can already be seen by exporting the csv file but this process takes about 10 mouse clicks. It would be much more eff...
3 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 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...
5 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 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...
7 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 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...
7 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 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...
7 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Enterprise Pools 2.0 Credit Consumption Calculator.

I propose the creation of a calculator to predict credit consumption. Currently, users of Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 can monitor credit consumption through the CMC console. However, there is no tool available that allows for the prediction of cred...
11 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Read Only Access for individual PEP2.0 pools in the CMC

Read only access to the Enterprise Pools in the CMC is a wonderful thing that is almost complete. What is missing is the ability to be more granular. Right now , the person with Read Only access gets access to ALL of the pools in the CMC. This is ...
12 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Granular API Token Management in CMC

The current IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) API token system provides limited control over access permissions. We propose enhancing the token management capabilities to provide greater flexibility and security: Multiple API Tokens: Allow users ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Retrieving Events/Alerts in CMC from API

Currently, the IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) provides notifications of events and alerts only via email and SMS. This limits the ability to integrate CMC with other monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems. We propose adding a RESTful AP...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted