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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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V8R8.7.0 new interface needs long LPAR list

The new HMC interface (as opposed to classic) is mandatory in HMC version V8R8.7.0. In this new interface LPARs are displayed as icons by default but this can be switched to list view. The list view defaults to 20 LPARs. Our enterprise systems con...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Allow changing default setting for user properties

Allow the ability to set HMC user properties to a different default setting. Example Instead of changing idle time for each individual user when they are created we should be able to change the default setting from 0 to 60 minutes and not worry ab...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

HMC CLI Restore command to compliment the BKCONSDATA

There is no equivalent CLI command to Restore Critical Console Data that would complement the BKCONSDATA command.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

New quick fetch property for HMC REST

I'd like to request new quick fetch property for SharedProcessorPoolhttps://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/POWER8/p8ehl/apis/SharedProcessorPool.htm Currently only PoolName quick property is available, I'd like to have also Pool size as qu...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Add an HMC LDAP config option to set the scope from the HMC gui

In HMC gui in the LDAP configuration add an option to specify the search scope.The matching command on the HMC CLI ischhmcldap -o s --scope sub
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Classic View

La vue classique devait être trop simple à utiliser, IBM nous impose à présent la vue etendue+ sans avoir le choix lors de la connexion.On passe son temps à chercher ce que l'on utilise depuis plus de 10 ans.La navigation n'est pas intuitive
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Allow pwage expiration > 180 on user defined policy

When configuring user defined policy on HMC most values are configurable to what is needed to conform to our company password policy but pwage is not configurable to 365 or 99999. It is restricted to up to 180 days.
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Request more functionality when creating custom managed resource role and excluding chosen lpars from user view.

At present when you remove a lpar from a user's assigned custom resource role you need to manually go back into the HMC and add a newly created lpar each time one is added to a managed system. I would like to have an option that would allow new lp...
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

HMC File perms on /var/log/messages

File permissions of -rw-r----- on the /var/log/messages file do not allow any users other than hscroot to read the file. We require all HMC users to authenticate with their own accounts (in the hmcsuperadmin role).
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Command to import/export/edit an LPAR's 'Description' field now available in the Enhanced UI

It would be great to be able to import from / export to CSV the data in the LPAR's 'description' field that is now available in the Enhanced UI.
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

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