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DRO ability to monitor resources on both CPU AND Memory

It would be nice to have the ability to choose both the CPU and Memory when monitoring resources.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

IBM i ACS - system configuration option to add links

In ACS it is now possible to add only only one "Tape Management" link. (this also where we can add a link for the HMC http gui ).Having a limit of being only able to add one, does not fit our need. We have systems with more Tape Libraries to manag...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Manual vNIC failover via HMC CLI

We'd like to ability to do manual vNIC failovers via the HMC CLI as this is our preferred means of performing scheduled maintenance on our POWER systems.
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

API to check password

can you create an API to verify a generated password against - all the SYSVAL that applies - the exit program for verification of password peculiarly usefull in case of use of QPWDRULES(*ALLCRTCHG) or, better, an API able to create a password that...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Delivered

Allow AIXPCM to health check closed luns

NEW FORMAT "PMR": TS001111225 (This RFE webform is expecting the old format and rejects the new one) Requesting: Add the option for AIXPCM to perform path health checks on all attached multi-path storage regardless of status. This will permit the ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 7 Delivered

LVM: Add ability to give up slow mirror

Add the ability to mark a physical volume or a complete mirror pool as missing, so that lvm could start handling stale pps. As "chpv -v r" is already there, maybe provide a force option to be able to deactivate pvs that hold open lvs that are mirr...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Locking Down Open Source Package Management in ACS

How can we lock down the new feature Open Source Package Management in IBM i Access Client Solutions? How do we make sure non-system administrators do not play around with installing and uninstalling packages? Use Case: IBM i Access Client Solutio...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

BRMS Full System Restore Enhancement

When a full system restore is performed using BRMS during the RTSCFG part devices are created, IBMi creates OUTQs for the devices, yet as OUTQs are created information regarding AUTL for the AUTQ is not restored.An intermediate step before restori...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

Search within Outline VIEW

A search window within OUTLINE - which will reduce the display to only values I am entering..( And I attached a little screenshot)So when I have 4 fields with rss01 rss02 rst001 rst002 and I am entering "rs" - all fields are still displayed.Howeve...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Deprecating TLS 1.0 in CIMOM

QYCMCIMOM/CIMOM (CIM and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)) job at ports 5889 and ports 5990 are using TLS Version 1.1. Use Case: IBM ESA (Phone Home)
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Delivered

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