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Option to enable HMC Call Home Paging to Phone Number

"Option to enable HMC Call Home Paging to Phone Number along with emails..Need the phone number feature to be added."This would help us to stay alert for any production server h/w failure.. Currently email is configured but we missed to take actio...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

ScreenDesigner should support Compile Menu in Design or Preview mode

When opening a member with Screen Designer, the Compile Menu is shown only when in the source tab, it is not shown when in the Design or Preview tabs. I believe the Compile menu should be available irrespective of the tab that is active in the edi...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Highlight and or color parens

I'd like RDI to highlight or colorize matching parens. When nesting BIF's this can be a real useful feature when debuging and understanding code. Use Case: Debgugging, or changing code where multiple parens are used. Here is an example of a line o...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

VIOS - NPIV Adapters: Active WWPN Switch

It would be awesome if there would be a possibility to switch the active WWPN online. Just a command which switches the active WWPN.
over 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

Simple method for spinning up new HTTP servers for use with PHP.

Simple method for spinning up new HTTP servers for use with PHP. Use Case: Simple checkbox in HTTP server create that will bring in the proper files/config/directory structures.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing event notification for notifying critical/warning events + their corresponding recovery events

System: IBM VM Recovery Manager HA 1.4. Actor: Administrator needs new functionality Description: We ask to enhance functionality for critical/warning events. The new functionality should deliver new option/behaviour for sending recovery notificat...
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Increased scaling with active MWC

AIX active Mirror Write Consistency (MWC) has scaling limitations in big LPARs with lots of data.According to PMRs this is because of scalability limitations in the current AIX implementation.To be able to use that feature also in the future, the ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

set the firmware bootlist by hmc cli command

When a (AIX) partion is created (mksyscfg) and the partition is started, the boot has a 'default' boot list. We would like to be able to set it by a HLC command, so to avoid cd usb rmt and have just hard disk as entry. Rationale: avoid any othe...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

AIX IPsec SHA2_512 Hash support

Since the IKE Hash functions actually produce a value half the length of the bit strength, AIX_VPN>IKEProtection>IKETransform>IKE_Hash="SHA2_256" does not meet our corporate security policy. Please see here (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zo...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

IBM DB2 Connect 11.5 VSAI (Visual Studio Addin) for VS 2019 using deprecated API's

IBM DB2 Connect 11.5 VSAI (Visual Studio Addin) for VS 2019 using deprecated API's (synchronous loading apis). This needs to be updated for VS 2019 to use Asynchronous loading to remove the warning notices everytime you launch Visual Studio 2019. ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

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