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Make Remote Journaling visible on the source too

To my knowledge the remote journal config is only made visible in IBM i Access Client Solution Schemas on the target side by the added tab "Remote" on the journal Receiver.On the source side I have not yet found anything telling me that Remote jou...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

The option to Enable power collections from HMC command line.

I see performance graphs on some of our frames. It looks like we need to enable it on the other frames. We might have to do this every time we get new hardware. I have a script that runs every week that enables collections on the LPARs. The only w...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Support for User Tiers with Shared Storage Pools and PowerVC.

PowerVC supports the use of Shared Storage Pools as a storage provider and can manage and allocate storage volumes from this pool. Shared Storage Pool allows the creation of customer tiers for Quality of Service (QoS) needs.Actually PowerVC can on...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

invscout should report on currently active system firmware, not the accepted one

Currently invscout report is based on the accepted system firmware level (one stored on the permanent side of the hypervisor), instead of the active (booted from). Example: [root@server:/home/root(4)]# lsmcode -A | grep sys0 sys0!system:VL950_105 ...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Provide authentication mechanisms like SAML 2.0 for web services client

Provide authentication mechanisms like SAML 2.0 for web services client Use Case: Several of our clients need to access webservices and are required to authenticate via SAML 2.0 based on a X509 certificate.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 5 Future consideration

pUpdate utility for AIX or Linux on x86

With respect to Power HMC ( 7063-CR1 ) we do get pUpdate utility along with firmware. They pUpdate utility runs only in Linux on Power.. Normally easily available systems are Linux on x86 or AIX systems.. My request is to provide this utility comp...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Request to add error code in subject line for HMC events

We would like to see "error code number" in the subject line for HMC events/alerts notification mails. This will help us focus on important alerts.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Flag for lsmpio to show Storagecontroller

lsmpio has no switch to identify presenting Storagecontroller. If we migrate Storage (e.g. from SVC1 to SVC2) there is no easy way to make sure, all LUNs have been migrated. We have to find out UID and search on SVC for that ID.It would be helpful...
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

A way to change System Policy via command line

We need find a way to submit two control groups to batch mode backup. In the control group exit line, we'd like to change the way BRMS System Policy parameter "Restricted state time limit" to different value according to the control group.If ENDSB...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Future consideration

Option to Normalize HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADER Fields (Key Names) in the QSYS2 HTTP Functions

The HTTP header fields are case-insensitive. That is, content-type, CONTENT-TYPE, and CoNtEnT-tYpE are all allowed uses of the IANA registered field Content-Type. Previously, when using the SYSTOOLS HTTP table functions (e.g., SYSTOOLS.HTTPGETCLO...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

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