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    Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

    The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

    Security issue: C runtime functions snprintf and vsnprintf return code is very much non-standard.

    This is useful because it allows C code to write functions securely and detect would-be buffer overruns that might result in security exposures. The return value for snprintf and vsnprintf are not consistent with C99 standard and most all other C ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

    Implement BRMS in S3 compatibility (I would like to know if there is any plan in future to implement BRMS in S3 compatibility)

    We are using BRMS on some of the servers as we are planning for S3 compatible storage for BRMS backup. Please confirm IBMi compatible on S3 protocols. Our plan is to replace the physical tape library with S3 protocol to backup the data to Dell ECS...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 11 Not under consideration

    AIX Security reporting tool

    Since CIS Tool latest version (v4.x) dropped support for generating AIX security reports based on CIS AIX 7.x benchmark; There is currently NO tool, which would generate decent HTML security reports from AIX systems. And that is a HUGE gap in secu...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

    Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

    There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted
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    HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

    At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

    With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 7 Future consideration

    PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

    Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
    3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    MsgID CPC1E11 to be posted to QSYSOPR/QHST when IPL Schedule is changed

    Knowing that your IPL schedule has been changed can be a critical piece of information. Any MsgIDs generated by the functions of the "Go Power" menu should be posting to QSYSOPR, QHST or some other MsgQ so that those messages can be monitored for ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Under review

    lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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