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My ideas: Hardware Management Console

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    Add a System Location column to HMC table view

    Currently, the HMC table view lists managed systems with many details such as system name, type, serial number, and state etc. However, it lacks a dedicated “System Location” column. This RFE proposes adding a “System Location” field to the HMC ta...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Submitted

    Allow scheduled tasks in HMC schedule management to be edited

    When you have created a scheduled Task like "backup profile data" or "backup HMC data" it os only possible to view or delete the Task. So if you want to Change the schedule to a new time oder date, you have to delete and receate the Task. It would...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

    Enable the use of VLAN tagging for HMC LAN/network ports

    The HMC’s LAN/network ports do not accept VLAN‑tagged traffic when a public IP is configured. They expect untagged (access) frames on a single VLAN. If an HMC LAN port is connected to a switch port set as a trunk (carrying multiple 802.1Q‑tagged V...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add status info while searching available levels of firmware update.

    When trying to use:Systems > Firmware > Update system firmware (for Power machine)the wizard gets stuck at Choose firmware type and target levelspecifically when I click on Search Available levels It can be stuck for anywhere 10-20-60 minute...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    More usability on HMC UI panel to add vNIC Backing Device to an LPAR

    HMC UI panel to add vNIC Backing Device: please consider to add physical port label next to the physical port location physical port label in addition to the physical port location code helps to identify the correct ressource to add additional bac...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Make group tags on HMC accessible via the CLI

    In the HMC, there's an option to create and list group tags. This is only available in the HMC browser. It would be good to include the tags in the output of the lssyscfg -r lpar command. These tags should also be able to be set using the chhsyscf...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

    HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

    HMC V11 should support download the zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI

    HMC V11 now supports collecting service data like VIOS snap, HMC debug and is able to automatically upload to an IBM case.If the client do not allow automatic upload or wants to collect data later, after the case has been created, then it would be...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    BMC user password reset from HMC

    This is a continuation of the original RFE: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-435 We would like the password reset functionality for BMC users from HMC to be extended to other BMC accounts (consists of hmcinband, root and ADMIN), including the abi...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

    When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
    7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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