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Allow the Delete Key to function in iACS Printer Output Listing

In ACS when you select a group of spool files to delete you must right mouse click and then select delete. It would be great to have the Delete Key trigger the delete. Use Case: Many of the applications we work with every day enable the delete key...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

HMC API Json support

It's important that HMC API support Json format.We would like use HMC API and integrate them on our API systems.
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

FROM AIX in Dockerfile

This Request For Enhancement is for allowing the usage of FROM AIX in the Dockerfile.
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp change when altering a partitioned tables partitions

The good (smart) thing about partition table is that when you take a back up you can tell BRMS to take a back up only on changed partitions. When altering a tables partitions, the changed timestamp is changed on all partitions, not just only the o...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Concurrent replacement for the FSP

The FSP (Flexible Service Processor) cannot be changed in Concurrent mode. The E870C and E880C Systems have a dual FSP configuration, the failover of a FSP System does not create an outage.But the replacement of the failed FSP must be done after o...
over 6 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

CINDER driver on PowerVC 2.1.1 with ALUA

Hello, We're going to set up a POC on our POWERVC infra to provision LUNS in our Hitachi disk array, thanks to the CINDER driver in version 14 embedded in POWERVC version 2.1.1.In the doc, I read that "You cannot use Asymmetric logical unit access...
about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Partitions table view select column to sort save to preferences

The table view of Partitions defaults to sorting by name. It would be helpful if when user sorts on another column that the change is both persistent when returning to this screen and/or saved with user preferences.
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Allow "Save As" when creating a console session through ACS System Configuration

When creating a console session through ACS System Configuration, the options are "Save" or "Save as multiple sessions." We would like these sessions to be saved with the other HOD files when 5250 Session Manager is opened, aand a "Save As" functi...
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Make the system number static for multiple systems connected to HMCs

We have many LPARs which our many operators need to start console sessions on (monitoring backups, etc.). As such, we use macros to connect to these LPARs. When an HMC is rebooted, the number of the systems often change so the existing macros eith...
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

HMC should give a warning message when reducing current configuration resources of stopped LPAR by stealing process

When HMC needs to steal cpu or memory resources from stopped LPARs in order to fullfill a LPM request or a LPAR start operation because there are not enough completely unused ("free") resources in managed system, current configuration of stopped L...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

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