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    HMC GUI should have an option of adding an LDAP group along with LDAP users

    HMC GUI should have an option of manage/add users as well as groups from LDAP. We currently have the LDAP configured under HMC to authenticate based on the individual user but not group. A case was opened with IBM support in order to provide a sol...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Planned for future release

    Improve time to get Full Sysdump in Highend Mission critical systems with huge amount of memory

    As IBM we describe Highend Power servers as one of the most resilient and available platforms to hold mission critical workloads. Those servers have increasing amount of memory (several TB) and hold many workloads in parallel thanks to our PowerVM...
    over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 0 Planned for future release

    HMC delivering CPW calculation

    Would simplify and speed up the process to gather this info, which will be helpful in the sizing of new customer environments and comparison of customer environments.
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance the AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa

    The AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa have in Standard AIX a lot less rights than in Trusted AIX. It should be equal. At least for the components which are available on both AIX types.
    about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Enable fc_mappings feature support in VMRM to be able to manage Migration between physical servers in Hostgroup which have multiple paths to disk

    Everybody deploying VMRM can benefit from it. In fact this is a product limitation for VMRM as the LPM SRR feature directly launched from HMC works properly while VMRM fails to manage this case. This prevents VMRM form managing properly the autom...
    over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 4 Planned for future release

    Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings)

    Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings) e. g. chpcm -l "location" to reflect where the managed system resides and to be able to achieve more granularity, when it comes to sustainability ...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    AIX, VIOS and HMC Lifecycle Information API

    Dear Team, Looks like there is no API available to fetch table data from the below VIOs and AIX pages. It would be a nice to have feature, If there is an API available similar to FLRT API. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/powervm-vios-lifecycle-i...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

    Download I/O Firmware to HMC

    It would be nice to have the option to download a copy of the I/O Firmware to the HMC like how you can with a VIOS image. That way you don't have to use the IBM Service Web Site or an FTP server. It would make it faster to update I/O Cards if you ...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    HMC V9 Partitions table view to include column for IPL Source

    On our previous version of the HMC firmware V7790 the display of LPARs on a server included a column for the IPL Source. After upgrading to new HMCs running V9 firmware to manage our POWER9 servers, the Partitions display (table view) no longer in...
    almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Planned for future release

    HMC enhanced gui compact LPAR listing

    For the HMC Enhanced GUI: Under the partition list view, it's important to be able to get a compact overview of LPARs and their characteristics - ideally without scrolling. There are some current limitations to the visual representation - specific...
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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