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LPM should not switch to Default Processor Pool

During LPM via HMC-GUI (V10 R3 SP1051 / MF71688) the setting for processor pool switches back to the Default Processor Pool, if not explicitely changed by drop-down menu. Since Processor Pools are very important to us (licences) AND there's a veri...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

See progress of RGZPFM

When you do a RGZPFM can we see the progress in the joblog? or somewhere we could see how much progress is being made. This will help gauging how long a reorg will take.
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings)

Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings) e. g. chpcm -l "location" to reflect where the managed system resides and to be able to achieve more granularity, when it comes to sustainability ...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Reinstatement of 'sed' in HMC v10

Hi , We urge the reinstatement of the 'sed' command in the next patch for HMC v10. Its removal (PTF MF71298 and MF71299) has critically impacted the functionality of numerous scripts, including ezh (Brian Smith) and eezh (Matthew Opoka). Additiona...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Option to save VM configuration (Compute Template/SCG-IPG/Volume Template mapping/IP address mapping etc) while unmanaging a VM, so that managing the VM back brings back the configuration.

Currently the VM configuration information such as Compute Template used/SCG-IPG used/Volume Template mapping/IP address mapping etc are lost when a VM is unmanaged. Remanaging the same VM causes problem as the information is lost and it is upto t...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add TLS support for SNDDSTJS

Add TLS 1.3 support for SNDDSTJS to connect to a remote mail router without authentication. Advanced job scheduler notification properties does not have the option to enable TLS. TLS is required by some companies including financial intuitions.
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

Add a new option on CRTDUPOBJ to replace the object

Create a new option REPLACE(*YES|*NO) on the CRTDUPOBJ command that will replace the TO object if it exists. This will allow you to use Wildcards and just replace the object. The use case for this is so, we need to copy objects from one library to...
9 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Under review

Cloud Connector Status report also HMC hostname

it's much easier to find HMC hostname during investigation
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Rsyslog with omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support

Hello, I request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support. We are encountering the following error in our environment: 7216.011687000:main Q:Reg/w0 : errmsg.c: Called LogMsg, msg: omkafka: error cr...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

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