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AIX rsyslog and omelasticsearch plugin

Include omelasticsearch plugin into the rsyslog web download package. This is a needed plugin for Humio integration, Humio is an IBM OEM offering.
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

errpt summary report type "T" column is ambigious

When you run an errpt summary report, the T column (error type) is one column. There does not appear to be a unique character for each type of error: I for INFO , P for PEND , P for PERF , P for PERM , T for TEMP , and U for UNKN. The P is ambigio...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Container support for PowerHA GUI

It will be useful to have the ability to get a pre-installed and setup WPAR or Ansible based Container Image for the GUI server of PowerHA
over 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

HMC Security Concern with initial login screen

The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) customer has advised that their Security Team would like to have the initial login screen modified in the HMC code to the remove the information displayed which indicates the number of managed systems...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

Scot Stansell

When Critical, Warning and Maintenance counts are displayed, the event details can be displayed by hovering the mouse over them. With an event for each count, the dashboard will be more useful. All counts should have a corresponding hover detail.
almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

verify upgrade or downgrade for Firmware levels?

maybe ticket, maybe function?When you use update, change LIC to a newer release and retrieve from IBM service web site, the selector shows only old LIC versions. Is this meant to allow a downgrade, is this an error, or just a weird method of telli...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

Increase size of hover over box in RDI

When hovering over a variable in RDi (example RPG source) a box shows up containing the definition of the variable, however this box is too small to see the actual definition which requires pressing F2 and resizing it manually. Use Case: When hove...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Planned for future release

Allow setting default login policy for PowerSC MFA

Currently, when a user logs in, they must specify the login policy they wish to use (eg RADIUS), even if there is only a single policy defined. It would be preferable to allow a default profile and not require user input if there is only one policy.
almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

Better troubleshooting when HMC doesn't display devices like disks when it should.

When the CMDB on the VIOS server is wrong, then the HMC simply does not display what you should see, and you have zero insight into why. We had issues with disks, missing UUIDs, or other errors. There should be a command, maybe a little more refin...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to 'quiesce' (or 'unmanage') entire VMRM cluster during SW upgrades

Under 'Description' write the details of your new idea: On a 'HA' cluster with 2 Hosts we had to upgrade the HMCs from v9 to v10, during the upgrade the KSYS logged the event HMC_UNREACHABLE even though it's expected that the HMC may not be Fully ...
about 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

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