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PVC not savin "running" config to "startup" config after every zone change on Cisco SAN Switches to Preserve over restarts

PowerVC 1.4.4 Is out of sync on "startup" config on Cisco MDS switches with "Running" config. This may result in loosing the last saved zone changes and its configuration data upon loosing or restarting SAN switches due to various reasons. Support...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Ability to migrate LU from thin to thick in Shared Storage Pool

It would be useful to have a command or automated procedure to migrate an lpar's LU from thin to thick provisioning in VIOS Shared Storage Pools.
over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

Syntax highlighter for UIM Source

Probably silly, but I'd like to have at least a minimal syntax highlighter for UIM source. I personally use a lot of UIM and just seeing the language tags different than the rest of the text would be nice. When editing UIM source code that support...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

PowerVC support for HMC 8.4 /VIOS 2.4

Customers would like to use PowerVC with HMC 8.4 and VIOS 2.4 which are the current releases of those products
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Please stop prompting the command when copying members.

When copying source members from one file to another, do not prompt the CPYSRCF command for every member. Use Case: When I drag one or more members from one file to another (like from object table to remote systems view), the CPYSRCF command promp...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Ability?to?Masquerade?in?HMC?sendmail?config

We need help with sendmail masquerading in our HMC servers so that the sender address is changed in all mail and alerts sent from the server.
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Modify RDp to support an SSL debug session

It would be helpful to provide support for debug sessions running under SSL. Use Case: A good example is debugging a program that handles personal information, such as credit card number, after decryption. Duing a debug session, the information is...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Push To Client not saving customization of perspectives

Customization of perspectives (adding/removing menus, buttons, etc) is not saved/published when using the Push To Client feature. Use Case: Push-to-Client is a great feature for simplifying the roll-out of standard configuration and perspective cu...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Scalability for lsdevinfo when there are a large number of devices in the ODM

lsdevinfo can take a long time to run >30 minutes in large configurations. This impacts the HMC in several areas. The command lsdevinfo is not used by lshwres alone but by many other functions on HMC including the UI, REST API, PowerVM, NEO... ...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

MPIO support over AIX ISCSI

MPIO is not supported and does not function on ISCSI connections for AIX. This means that we cannot get redundancy for ISCSI boot drives. We have had to create a manual watchdog script to delete and recreate storage interfaces when the connectivit...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

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