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Move volume between projects

Currently to move volumes between projects involves un-managing volume from one project, then managing it in another project. It would be nice for Administrator users to have an option to select unmapped volumes and send to another project.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

SSP Tier aware

Please make PowerVC be SSP tier aware, and configurable in storage templates. Give us the ability to configure tiers to be associated with projects.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Add an ENDOPT parameter to the RUNBCKUP command

Running backups in WRKJOBSCDE would be enhanced when using virtual tape drive if there was an ENDOPT parameter to the RUNBCKUP command so that one could just run RUNBCKUP BCKUPOPT(*DAILY) ENDOPT(*UNLOAD). This would prevent the need for an exit pr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 2 Future consideration

Need a permanent fix for the issues getting created by the presence of unused adapters in the System

We were told through case TS002396037 that the presence of unused Ethernet and Fiber Channel adapters are the cause for reoccurring SEA failures on our VIOs. Upon Failure we have to restart our VIOs to bring back the SEA to a stable state. We were...
over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Inability to specify min/max in compute template when using dedicated CPU

When a system is deployed using powerVC as dedicated processors. The min/max value is also getting set as the desired value. This is preventing us from changing the CPU dynamically on the running system. If there a way to deploy the template for d...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Host Service Should Ignore Expired Certificates

Today I experienced that as long as an expired certificate exists, the associated services on power i (e.g. login, database, ddm) do not work and deny access despite the fact there is another certificate that is active on the same services. By del...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

Cross Frames Shared Processor Pool via PEP

- Today PEP2.0 delivers capability to allow flexible usage of system resources (core, ram, OS) across frames. - Client evaluating PEP2.0 have expressed concern that with PEP induced flexibility, they lose control over DB/App software license usage...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Future consideration

As part of the IBM PMR - TS0022011993, need to add SNI functionality for HMC's

From: aix_support@ecurep.ibm.com [mailto:aix_support@ecurep.ibm.com] Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2019 12:53 AMTo: Balamurugan ViswanathanCc: Abhijit Debnath2; Madhubabu Singamala1; Roshan Naran; Shine Ouseph; Westpac Gd Vio India; Bhati, Kuldeep; Nepomuc...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow multi-volume select for storage resizing operation

It is common for users to have multiple storage volumes attached for databases or other workloads to support both throughput or capacity needs. When storage volume sizes need to be increased it is much faster and safer to allow selection of all th...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Problem whit the discs paramitters on AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2

we have found that upgrading to AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 changes the disk policies. We think that this is a big problem, because we manage hundreds of servers, and if we change the reserve_policy with chdev, then every time a technician adds a disks to a c...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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