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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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HMC remore GUI

Remote GUI to HMC tries to reach https://ibm.com. My browser has no internet access, so proxy ist sending status 403 to my browser. But Browser don't stops to trie to connect to IBM. Our Network team is not very amused about that.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Ability to see a list of active LPARs before proceeding with a disruptive firmware upgrade from HMC

GEICO recently upgraded firmware on a number of E850s. They accidentally upgraded a Production node during working hours instead of a Test Server. They would like HMC to give them a warning message about which LPARs are currently active on the ser...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

re-add the ability to edit SR-IOV backing device editing in LPM gui

In the v9 interface when performing an LPM verfication, you could modify the backing device mappings, such that the % of logical port, which VIO to control that backing device, etc, could all be modified to accomodate the possible differences in b...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Command saveupgdata check space only AIX/LINUX - df

Now command savupgdata only works with sftp server where command df is avalible.I have windows sftp and this command - df not give a free space from my server sftp works in windows. Currently, it is not possible to send data to servers other than ...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Is there any option to sort the managed systems on HMC

Changing managed systems sequence on HMC
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Create specific and restricted permissions to run run lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all frames

Create specific and restricted permissions to run lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all frames. Actually, user shall have activate partition to run these commands. We would like separate activate partition from running lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all ...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Have the ability to change the login retries and if possible the suspended time of users.

The default login retries for a user are 3 and then they are suspended for 5 minutes then the lock is released again. These settings do not meet our security standards. We would like to have ability to change the login retries and if possible the ...
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

Allow HMC to get OS version from Novalink

If there is no RMC connection to the HMC from the partition(s), the OS level cannot be determined. This leaves the OS-level field "blank" on the HMC. This influences tools that rely on the OS version, like LPAR2RRD and also makes it more difficult...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Fibre Channel Port Label

The should be unification between labels set with the labelvios command for FC ports and the VIO FC device attribute setting.
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Fast switch between VIOSes in GUI

When you inspect or change the configuration of one VIOS on the managed system, you usually want to repeat the same on the second VIOS. To achieve it, if GUI is now in one of the VIOS properties, the administrator must select first the managed sys...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release