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Add Red Hat support in PowerVC SDI server nodes

We have proposed the PowerVC SDI solution to a Canadian university and they noted that they have free Red Hat licenses to apply to their solution however we specified Ubuntu 16.04 for the server nodes because this is the only supported hypervisor....
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

ACS OCT 2017 - Add a remove button on Preferences...Changing Passwords window

In ACS Oct 2017 verision. Preferences...Passwords tab...Changing IBM I Passwords.There's a change button.I need a REMOVE button to delete the entry.I accidentally added a connections with the wrong userid and now I can't get rid of the entry. Use ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Request for enhancement for IBM i PowerHA to support a dynamic change of its enlisted DS8000 HyperSwap PPRC secondary device

Request for enhancement for IBM i PowerHA to support a dynamic change of its enlisted DS8000 HyperSwap PPRC secondary device configuration (ref. PMR 66756,180,846; CPS B9ZMF6) Use Case: Required enhancement to allow for an IBM i online data migrat...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Delivered

Check the variable declaration when compiling the SQL Stored Procedure

There is a problem that variable declaration check is not performed when compiling (creating) a stored procedure, which causes an error in execution. --------------------------------------- (Example 1)IF SQLCODE = 100 THENSET O_MSG = '';ELSESET O_...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Same user sign on multiple Windows remote desktop, when use ACS, new ACS 5250 sessions always open on 1st desktop session

Customer use Win2012 remote desktop. If the user has 2 remote desktop sessions active, and use ACS, anytime user opens ACS on the 2nd remote desktop session, the ACS always open on the original session where it was first opened for that user. We s...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

sortable columns in Power Enterprise Pool Management windows

When working in the Power Enterprise Pools Management window, it would be nice to be able to sort by columns the output in the Processor Resources and Memory Resources windows.
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Add an HMC LDAP config option to set the scope from the HMC gui

In HMC gui in the LDAP configuration add an option to specify the search scope.The matching command on the HMC CLI ischhmcldap -o s --scope sub
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Ability To Specify Memory In GB Instead of MB In Multiple Places

It would be beneficial to have the ability to specify memory values in GB instead of or in addition to MB in many areas inside of PowerVC. Possibly by adding a toggle that switches between MB/GB like on the HMC interface. We typically allocate mem...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Remove 'ping' as product requirement (be able to bypass 'ping' results)

Currently, when adding HMCs to VMR and when performing discovery/verification of storage agent, VMR performs a 'ping' to determine if the HMC or storage agent is up/operational. If the 'ping' fails, VMR does not proceed to configuring HMC or fails...
about 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

IBM VM Recovery Manager needs to accept special characters in HMC passwords

Brian:There might be some low hanging fruit for this issue.Does the HMC password you are trying to use contain any special characters?There is an APAR that addresses that issue but the fix is not yet available.The work-around is to change the HMC ...
about 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 3 Delivered

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