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    Simplify HMC update

    Please make HMC update similar to Firmware update.Ability to download directly from IBM/local and update to the latest in same level or upgrade to next level.something simple like chrome browser update.
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Allow sizing and Left, Right or Center Justification of Column view with v9 HMC GUI

    GUI Column Display of LPAR attributes needs better custom sizing and descriptions of some information needs to be improved for user readability. For example some columns such as LPAR memory might only require a few characters to display, but use m...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Add the ability to split out the 5250 firewall rule so that non-secure ports can be disabled or blocked while allowing the secure connection through.

    We had a request from the ISERIES Team to block non-secure 5250 connections. we were not able to satisfy this request due to the restrictions on the HMC Firewall.
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    JDK 11 fails to run single file classes without compiling

    A feature of JDK11 allows the user to run single .java source files without the need for compilation. This can be useful when making changes and testing without the need to compile it first. https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/330 On the IBM i currently...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 1 Planned for future release

    HMC show Message IDs in all dialogs

    currently creating some documentation / RFE. To show process of work for IBM to reproduce, we copy some dialogs. Some dialogs have a HSCF message ID, others don't.Would be great to include these message IDs in all dialogs so anyone can reproduce t...
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

    updhmc -t ibmwebsite

    For simplification reason it would make sense to have a repository type of "ibmwebsite" for updhmc(updhmc -t {ibmwebsite}as we already have it with updlic -r {ibmwebsite}
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Unmanage port in VM Recovery Manager

    A customer is hitting an issue that we have seen a few times with customers. Discover / verify operation fails with the following error when issuing an inquiry command:migmgr -f get_adapter -t vscsi -s U9080.M9S.21D5C47-V2-C418 -w 1385770584273256...
    over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

    Replace Bull Frewware RPMs with IBM Open Source repository RPMs for VM Recovery Manager

    It would be much better for this product to use RPMs from IBM's own RPM repository, as managed by yum rather than using a third party RPM repo. Companies that standardize on using the RPMs from IBM's repo must uninstall them to utilize the RPMs fr...
    over 6 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

    PowerHA DB2 HADR SmartAssist

    Create a PowerHA SmartAssist for DB2 HADR.This would be useful for AIX and Linux.A SmartAssist for DB2 does exist but not if HADR will be used.
    about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    please package openssl for rsyslog in AIX

    In product IBM TS7700 we want to provide our customers to use openssl with rsyslog, but the current aix rsyslog package do not include openssl. we would like to request it to be added.
    over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

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