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ACS - Schemas - provide for re-ordering of all columns in a table and views.

Please provide additional functionality to allow us to reorder any field/column on a table/view. As modernization happens or while developing new applications, new fields and keys are added and we do need to reorganize the sequence in which fields...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

LSVG -P does not issue any warning or errors when multiple PVs have duplicate PVIDs. It may list PVs that are not part of the volume group.

Every day, we clone all of the PVs in select volume groups, then run cfgmgr to make them accessible. Our normal first step is to clear and reset the PVID of each of the new PVs. Then use those PVs to recreate a new cloned version of the original v...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add SIEM support to PowerVC GUI

We run PowerVC in an environment where security is key. To facilitate this, we are running a SIEM appliance; this is a central monitoring device, setup to receive information from all kinds of systems, to collect security-relevant data. Reports fr...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

Better Locale support in the HMC GUI

The locale support seems to have little impact in the GUI. Changing the default en_US.UTF-8 American English(UTF-8) to en_GB.UTF-8 British English(UTF-8) seemingly doesn't change anything. The date format on the task list is still MM-DD-YY rather ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

add support for AIX and IBM i in yarnpkg

Yarn is a package manager for Javascript projects (https://yarnpkg.com/). It is used in many open and closed source projects for dependency management. As for now yarn doesn't support big endian architectures, such as AIX and IBM i. It means, that...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Display local and remote site resource totals

Create a new command to show a total of the local resources for all the managed VMs and the total resources of the remote hosts. These totals should include CPU and memory resources.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

PowerVC SSP Storage Clone and Snapshot

Currently, I am unable to clone a VM which has a boot volume on a SSP. I am also unable to snapshot a VM that has a boot volume on the SSP, and therefore unable to restore it as well. Since SSP is supported, it'd be great if this feature can be ad...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

POWER8 HMC

POWER8 HMC noise production
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

ISCSI Media Changer Driver Needed

AIX is missing support for ISCSI media changers. After configuring /etc/iscsi/targets to enable iscsi connectivity for remote tape drives and media changers, we get the following error after running 'cfgmgr' ****************** no stderr **********...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

FTP over SSL server on AIX - introduce option on ftpd.cnf for setting passive port range

After PASV mode is set in an FTPS connection, FTPS server will choose a random port in whole ephemeral port range, and send that port number to client in order for FTPS client to establish the data channel connection. So any firewall between clien...
about 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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