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    PowerVC should support multiple vSwitch environments for same VLAN / network

    PowerVC does not take into account that one specific network (resp. VLAN) can be serverd by different vSwitches within different managed systems. Because of that managed systems with deviant vSwitch definition are not selectable as LPM target syst...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Option to set mirror sync rate in PowerVC

    For mirrored LUNs created through PowerVC in SVC, we are unable to automatically set the "Mirror Sync Rate".The default value of 2MiB/s is not fast enough. We would like to see an option in PowerVC to set the mirror sync rate for mirrored LUNs in ...
    10 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Filter STrings to have exclude option

    The Filter Strings option for the Remote Systems view allows filters for things like objects. Those filters allow include criteria, but not exclude criteria. It would be really helpful if we could also have excludes. Use Case: I'm using RPGUnit in...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

    Enhancement to Remote Scratchpad view

    The Remote Scratchpad view in RDi is proving to be exceptionally useful when handling a number of different objects and source members at one time. (Ref. Charles Guarino's YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/gVnH5rgpSu8)The Scratchpad allows for ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 13 Future consideration

    OpenStack CLI support for all functions.

    Untill now only some functions of openstack command are supported. Extend support to all functions, to have supported easy way for automation.
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Populate Outline View for CL program variables & files

    When accessing Control Language (CL) source within the editor then populate the Outline View with the variable and file references and definitions like what is provided for RPG. Use Case: Anytime when editing Control Language (CL) source programs ...
    over 14 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Planned for future release

    PowerVC changing the synchronization rate for volumes on IBM SVC

    Hello,I would like to change the default SVC synchronization rate in PowerVC from 2 MB/s to 64 MB/s so that a volume no longer needs 24 hours to synchronize and is synchronized after 2 hours. At the moment you have to adjust this manually in the S...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Choose of network in deploy either DNS Authority or defined network

    Currently it is only possible to define a DNS authority or networks. When deploying a VM with defined DNS authority e.g. Infoblox we cannot set an ip address also when we want to deploy a VM with a defined network. The deploy failed so we have to ...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Export shared storage pool images from PowerVC

    It would be nice to be able to back up the shared storage pool images using the new regular backup command or something similar. Using "dd" as the doc suggests works of course but it's definitely not user-friendly... and it could lead to huge prob...
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVC 5 Future consideration

    PowerVC services/binaries/config/logs - owner by non-root user

    Once PowerVC is running, if it does not change RHEL OSI settings, does the product need to run as root?It is difficult to obtain root access to production systems, so collecting logs, performing backups, etc is extremely difficult to do when the p...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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