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IT department : Jose Carlos Alves

we need to change the MTU from 1500 to 1450 in our DR HMC ( external network) and also this HMC is connect internally and locally to a p770 p7+ (FSP2) in DR site and also to a 2x E870 production servers in production site (FSP2 ports), my be we ne...
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

viosupgrade force/yes option

viosupgrade command helps to upgrade VIOS 3.1 to 4.1. If viosupgrade finds some outdated filesets which are possibly not supported on VIOS 4.1, it stops and waits for user's confirmation. In an automated process it means that a user should confirm...
12 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Need to see RPM for Fans for each Power Server

We have had massive Datacenter problems due to wrong running Fan Speed on several E1080 so i want to see at the HMC GUI and also getting via RestAPI and/or CLI Fan Speed in RPM for each Fan per Power Server and an average
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

An IBM i Service for retrieving device status similar to WRKCFGSTS

A device's status is currently not available via SQL. This would be useful for tracking the status of devices such as virtual display/printer devices. It would be useful for System Admins. It could be partnered with QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS to find...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

SAVLIB / RSTLIB - Guarantee that all type external procedures are saved and restored

Our company does SAVLIB backups of production libraries for last resort recovery and development environment restoration. There is a hole in this process that is recognized in "External Procedures, Triggers, and User-Defined Functions on IBM DB2 f...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

Show program lib/name in webservice overview

Currently only the description name of the webservice is shown in the HTTP Admin server. This requires you to click on properties for each individual service to see to which library it is referring which is slow in the web interface. Use Case: Cur...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Publish API(s) to perform the work done via CLI command powervc-edit-scg

For automation. And not needing elevated access to OSI.
7 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Auto refresh Service Entry Points in RDi

When setting a Service Entry Point in RDi, every time you re-compile the program the SEP must be refreshed. It's easy to forget to do so, and then you need to stop the program you are trying to debug. It would be good if RDi would just auto refres...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

Add a job monitor function to Navigator for i.

System i Navigator was able to choose a job by a monitor function of the central management.but Navigator for i does not have it.SO I want you to add it to Navigator for i . Use Case: IBM i V7R2M0/V7R3MO
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Future consideration

rendev updates

I would like to have the rendev command to be able to change rootvg disk(s) and take effect after reboot.
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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