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AIX rsyslog and omelasticsearch plugin

Include omelasticsearch plugin into the rsyslog web download package. This is a needed plugin for Humio integration, Humio is an IBM OEM offering.
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

HMC Security Concern with initial login screen

The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) customer has advised that their Security Team would like to have the initial login screen modified in the HMC code to the remove the information displayed which indicates the number of managed systems...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

ADD ADAPTER and REMOVE would benefit if SYSTEM BUS NUMBER was shown

When moving Physical IO adapters from one partition to the other the SYSTEM BUS number and the Location Code of the adapter are the two pieces of information Clients use to Confirm they are moving the intended adapter. The SYSTEM BUS number is the...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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.
about 6 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...
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

WebQuery SUM by GROUP

Webquery should support a function like SUM by GROUP. I don't know if there exist a specific word for it, so I'll try to describe it with an example.If you have data like the following: Customer Year RevenueCust_A 2012 $ 523 2013 $ 658Cust_B 2012 ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 11 Planned for future release

Ability to adjust the desirability of a host within a host group, so new lpar deployments would always go to other hosts first until there is no other valid target host.

The ability to keep a hot-spare in the host group so that it's available in the event of the failure of another host and for maintenance. T he way it is now, we either have to LPM anymore lpars that land there, put into maintenance mode, or remove...
4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Planned for future release

User generated list of IP that the HMC will NOT use for RCM connections.

When an RCM connection is established to the PowerHA cluster service IP that moves from node to node, you can end up in a situation where you cannot dynamically increase CPU, and memory on a system. I would like to exclude PowerHA Service IPs from...
10 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

errpt summary report type "T" column is ambigious

When you run an errpt summary report, the T column (error type) is one column. There does not appear to be a unique character for each type of error: I for INFO , P for PEND , P for PERF , P for PERM , T for TEMP , and U for UNKN. The P is ambigio...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Scot Stansell

When Critical, Warning and Maintenance counts are displayed, the event details can be displayed by hovering the mouse over them. With an event for each count, the dashboard will be more useful. All counts should have a corresponding hover detail.
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

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