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Enhance the AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa

The AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa have in Standard AIX a lot less rights than in Trusted AIX. It should be equal. At least for the components which are available on both AIX types.
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

RSCT - Change to Communication Group formation over entirely uncommon subnets

When creating a RSCT "Peer Domain" cluster in a DR setup (2 Data Centers, multiple km apart), and with multiple Networks. It can happen that unwanted, or not working RSCT Communication Groups get created. It would be useful to have a capability to...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

Partitions overview - identify the shared processor and memory pools assigned to the LPAR

Using multiple LPARS for testing ideas, then deactivating them, I am assigning LPARS to an "InactivePool" while they are powered off. I need to ensure that LPARs are all correctly assigned before activation to avoid license warnings and keep me le...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Power10 eBMC systems : Add CLI Command to change Access Password

Using case # TS013244866 as a reference. For a Brand NEW eBMC Power10 Frame , with nothing on it, just freshly cabled up and in that state you have to enter a password and then setup the VMI. That's the password I was told cannot be done via CLI, ...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Enable fc_mappings feature support in VMRM to be able to manage Migration between physical servers in Hostgroup which have multiple paths to disk

Everybody deploying VMRM can benefit from it. In fact this is a product limitation for VMRM as the LPM SRR feature directly launched from HMC works properly while VMRM fails to manage this case. This prevents VMRM form managing properly the autom...
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 4 Planned for future release

User interface improvements when configuring FIM

Selecting the right files when configuring auditd or RTC can be a bit challenging and time-consuming at the moment - and we think some minor interface tweaks could make this process easier. 1) 'Freeze' the headings on the table when scrolling - to...
8 months ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

Shift pane to the right after pinning the left menu on HMC v10R2.

It's annoying that the left menu hides a lot of things once you pin it to the side. We should be able to pin it and have the right pane shift right so no words are covered.
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Task in Scheduled Operations to Schedule an HMC Reboot

We have numerous frames attached to an HMC. IBM recommends rebooting the HMC monthly to quarterly. We would like to schedule a reboot in 'Scheduled Operations'.
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

TNC should indicate the exact subset of ifixes needed for a given TNC Client

When a TNC verify operation is run, TNC creates a report, missingifixes.rpt. But that reports lists the set of ifixes that have direct or indirect relevance to the endpoint.For example, say that a system is vulnerable to a security issue that rela...
9 months ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

Qualified data structures in CLLE

When defining a data structure in CLLE with DCL STG(*DEFINED), allow subfields to be defined as qualified in a similar way to RPG. e.g. DCL &STRUCT *CHAR(100) DCL VAR(&SUBFIELD) TYPE(*CHAR) STG(*DEFINED) + LEN(2) DEFVAR(&STRUCT 1) QUAL...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Planned for future release

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