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Update certificate instructions to HMC V10

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=tasks-manage-certificates is obsolete. Please update to a current version of HMC.
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

CMC to display available and used ECOD processor days

Several of my customers extensively use Elastic Capacity on Demand on/off processor days for general usage on E880C Enterprise servers configured with eight permanently active of 192 core E880C systems. They experience a challenge in monitoring th...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

Add check in diagcloudconn command for any new opening needed

Since HMC is locked down and not even allow for nc command (for checking of firewall port openings) one has to rely on the diagcloudconn command. This command does not check the new demand for EP2.0 functionality, 59ee3f51-cc76-4da4-9390-fac27d6a6...
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Add a "Run Now" option on an HMC scheduled task

As part of HMC patching it's good to take a backup before after so a recovery point is available. Where the HMC has a scheduled backup already defined it would be convenient to have a "Run now" option against the schedule entry in the GUI.
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

CLI command to list LPAR description and Group tags

HMC V10R1 GUI allows you to define LPAR/VM description and group tags. This is wonderful feature specially on a multi-tenancy system. However, there is no CLI command to list this information. We use the CLI command for ease of reporting.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

HMC V10R2 - Configuration of the initial screen

HMC V10R2M1040 came with the beautiful dashboard as the initial screen. Unfortunately not everyone likes to see the dashboard. Some of colleagues would like to see the list of the managed systems as the initial screen in HMC - same as with V10R2M1...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Enhancements to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms command

Requesting the folloing additional functionaluty to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms search: - Please provide an option to ignore NFS Filesystems - Option to list the filesystems to scan - Option to ingore a list of filesystems in the scan
8 months ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

HMC GUI, UAK expiration.

Suppose that my frame's UAK are about to expire in a few days. Suppose I'm working on something else that requires my attention. Suddenly I begin to receive popups telling me that UAK are about to expire. I have about 50 frames so I receive about ...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Add PGM parameter to Command Definition (CMD) command

On CRTCMD, PGM parameter defines the command processing program (CPP) for the command being created. Add this parameter to the CMD definition statement so the CPP can be coded within the command source. Today, the CPP must be specified each time t...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Planned for future release

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

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