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    Add the HTML documentation options from the Heritage Navigator for i to the new BRMS HTTP server

    In the Heritage Navigator for i BRMS gui section several options were available to create documentation. Those options did generate HTML documents. The quality of those HTML document was high. Allowing you to add them to your own BRMS documentatio...
    about 5 hours ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement

    IBM Idea: Simplify SR-IOV VF Deconfiguration for Adapter Replacement Title: Automated or Centralized Deconfiguration of SR-IOV Virtual Functions (VFs) Across LPARs for Adapter Maintenance Description: In environments using SR-IOV with vNICs and re...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVM 4 Submitted

    Added security options in WRKOBJBRM to prevent accidental restores to the original library

    Request Description: When using the WRKOBJBRM command in BRMS, selecting option 7 = Objects to restore, followed by option 1 = Select, results by default in a restoration into the original library, with the parameter: Restore library: *SAVLIB This...
    8 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Submitted

    Add *ALLUSR in command RSTLIBBRM

    RSTLIBBRM SAVLIB(*ALLUSR) - this is required to restore to another partition using BRMS network.
    7 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

    For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
    9 months ago in PowerVM 5 Under review

    Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

    Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
    7 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Future consideration

    Allow brms restore files without member

    The operating system natively allows you to restore *FILE objects without members using the FILEMBR((*ALL *NONE)) parameter with the RSTOBJ command, which is very useful when, for example, you need to align test environments and are not interested...
    4 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    Lack of BRMS auditing

    BRMS does not log changes made to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a specific table or journal. Having BRMS log changes to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a dedicated table o...
    3 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System> command work as is for Power11 Systems

    The command lshwres -r procpool -m <Managed System Name> for Power11 Systems will yield and error : "The command entered is either missing a required parameter or a parameter value is invalid. The parameters that are missing or have an inval...
    2 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

    Enable Shared Processor Pool within PEP 2.0

    In the current implementation of PEP 2.0, the processor resources available in operation are composed of the respective Base Activations per machine and the additional credits. The limit of the usable resources corresponds to the total installed p...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

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