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SNMPv3 traps for Power Hardware Management Console

Our information security team is concerned that the HMC only appears capable of sending SNMPv2 traps, even though the agent is described as SNMPv3. They are concerned that unencrypted traps would allow an intruder to monitor the success or failure...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

GENUUID to previous versions

Add version 4 UUID in V7R2 onwards Use Case: Version 4 UUID's provide a far better chance of obtaining a unique ID. V7R4 has been announced with Version 4 UUID generation capabilities so we would like it to be implemented in previous versions if p...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration

SOAP 1.2 for Webservice Client

IBM i - Webservice ClientDie Anbindung unseres DMS (Dealer Management Systems) an das B2B-Portal von Daimler basiert auf dem Austausch von SOAP 1.2 - Dokumenten via Webservice. IBM i unterstützt lediglich SOAP 1.1 im Bereich Webservice Client; ins...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Future consideration

Smaller barcode size required in 5770TS1

System: Product 5770TS1Actor: Barcode size 0.007 required for barcode reader Description:Currently we are using a non IBM developed application for converting spoolfiles to PDF-Files. On most documents provided for our customers (for example: quot...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Print 3 Future consideration

PowerVC - versioning of instances

PowerVC provides Snapshot to capture disk of a vm or instance. This information does not include vm details (cpu memory network etc)Capturing an image of a vm would include all data, but this feature doesn't provide a way to tie that image as a "b...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

TS002037047

HMC Test Call home is not a complete testWhen doing a test call home against the HMC a Problem number gets created and then a PMH should be supplied by the support center. The problems we are seeing is when no PMH is returned this are no alerts le...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

Virtual Machine Overview should have SRC filed to show current status codes

When deploying a server if the instance fail to find boot source no error is reported back to the gui. Having the SRC codes show in the PowerVC GUI will allow users to see failed boots and also follow status changes.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

HMC - PEP XML Preview

We use Power Enterprise Pools extensively. We have found that the XML provided by IBM after a resource purchase is not always correct and adversely affects our running POWER servers.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Change HTTP admin server from running under QSECOFR

Change HTTP Admin servers from running under QSECOFR Use Case: This cases the previous sign on to be updated when no one is signing on.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Live Kernel Update (LKU) with AIX Accounting enabled

Currently LKU (live kernel update) is not possible when using the AIX accounting subsystem.Also stopping the subsystem before the LKU is not possible since the 'aacctdd' kernel extension does not unload properly !Please provide a way to make use o...
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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