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PowerVC support for CentOS

Currently PowerVC supports RHEL only. Can CentOS be added to the supported Operating System for the PowerVC Management Server? Another alternative could be Ubuntu.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Stop monitoring non-observable code

Prevent non-observable functionality from being impacted by the process of code coverage. When running a program under code coverage, the debug product is actually active but if said program calls another process, in which we have no control over ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Future consideration

Add physical bytes used on media to QSRSAV format for save output

We currently have no way to know how much space is used and how much is available on our LTO media until we fill the tape. The save commands support output to a file in QSRSAV format, which includes the original size of the objects that were saved...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration

CL Parsing in LPEX Editor not using Line Length Preference Setting

The CL Parser in the LPEX Editor does not use the "Line Length" preference setting (for splitting a formatted command into multiple lines) when the "Automatic formatting" preference is turned off -- even though the "Line Length" preference shows a...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

SUMA schouldn't download superseded packages

We use SUMA to download the latest fixes for a specific AIX-TL once a week. Every week the same set of files gets downloaded and is being removed immediately during lppmgr cleanup afterwards because a newer one is already present (and skipped duri...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

PowerVC should support dedupe and compression on Hitachi storage

Hitachi's latest storage arrays (e.g. VSP 5500) are efficient with dedupe and compression (collectively called "Automatic Data Reduction" ADR). Apple has purchased a 5500 and want to leverage ADR functionality in their environment.
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Allow chsvcevent to manually update pmh_num and/or comment

Modify chsvcevent to allow manual updating of pmh_num and/or custom field for tracking purposes.
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Allow renaming field into a data structure

Allow renaming a variable into a qualified data structure. Currently when that is attempted RDi says "You have specified an invalid name". Use Case: See attachment
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Future consideration

Manage Task and Resource Role window size and capabilities

HMC GUI interface: go into users and rolesselect- manage tasks and resource roles:modify - manage resource roleyou have to use the slide bar constantly to see the partition name for every server you want to add and it returns back to the left as s...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Provide capability to use non-root user onVM Recovery Manager HADR

VMRM HADR 1.4.0.2 requires that all operations, CLI and GUI, are configured and managed using the root user. The GUI sends commands to the AIX KSYS instance using ssh but it is standard practice for Banks to change /etc/ssh/sshd_config to the foll...
about 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future consideration