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Hardware Management Console

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    HMC V11 should support download the zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI

    HMC V11 now supports collecting service data like VIOS snap, HMC debug and is able to automatically upload to an IBM case.If the client do not allow automatic upload or wants to collect data later, after the case has been created, then it would be...
    6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Show under active users, the users connected to IBMi console.

    Currently under active users, we can see the ones connected on the GUI (session ID X) and also connected in SSH (Session ID pts/x). But we can't see the ones connected using IBM i console connections through the HMC. It would be nice to have that ...
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Submitted

    PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

    We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
    11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

    If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Option to have 'key:value' pair tags in Power HMC.

    HMC V10R3 allows to define LPAR description and group tags, but it is not possible to create the tags in the 'key:value' format. This is a standard format on other platforms and already adopted on IBM Cloud. There are several modernization, monito...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    HMC delivering rperf calculation

    Would simplify and speed up the process to gather this info, which will be helpful in the sizing of new customer environments and comparison of customer environments.
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add additional quick property request for SRC

    We are looking a for a fast and easy way to get the SRC for a managed system and partition, currently the only way to extract the SRC is by requesting the information for the system or partition which reults in a 12K (approx) download to get 8 byt...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    VM/LPARS description synced in HMC-pair (and to CMC)

    We would llike to use the description field for virtual servers / LPARs in HMC, but since its not synced by default we need to update both HMCs. This extra step seems unneeded since a description for LPARs should never differ in between HMCs, ther...
    almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    HMC Storagevisualization should show mappings to SpectrumScale Storage Provider

    HMC Storage Visualization does not show vscsi mapping to SpectrumScale storage provider.The gui should be enhanced so that mappings will be shown in the GUI.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Comment item per profile for LPAR

    Would be nice to have a comment field for each profile per lpar so customer can add text for the profile about config, dates of changing , change history etc.
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

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