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    Option to enable HMC Call Home Paging to Phone Number

    "Option to enable HMC Call Home Paging to Phone Number along with emails..Need the phone number feature to be added."This would help us to stay alert for any production server h/w failure.. Currently email is configured but we missed to take actio...
    almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Improve errpt CORE_DUMP entries to refer back to executable image that was running

    When using dbx to analyze a core file that was dumped, the executable binary that was running must be used in combination with the core file to identify the exact instruction that caused the core dump. In the errpt CORE_DUMP entry there is the ful...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Implement a "News and Updates" function into the GUI

    Implement a news and Updates function which would download the latest updates to a temporary folder on the PowerVC system, along with a file describing any of the latest news and usage tips for customers. One purpose of this is to promote the inst...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Live capture multiple volumes on a shared storage pool

    "Live capture uses group operations to capture virtual machines with multiple volumes. It is not possible to live capture virtual machines with multiple volumes on a shared storage pool." An option to override the requirement for consistency group...
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add ability to create 4k certificates for HMC

    When creating a new certificate request for a certificate to be signed by a certificate authority on a 7042 HMC, there is no option to select the key size. The generated certificate request has a key size of 2048. Add ability to specify a key size...
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    Enhancement to get better messaging in the joblog for missing directory for access logs

    As described in the PMR #11243,033,724, the apache version 2.4.2 is now "checking during config test that directories for the access logs actually exist." (PR 29941). If the directory is missing, then the apache instance will not restart. This is ...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Future consideration

    SQL Service qsys2.dns_lookup_ip() needs to return *all DNS name for given IP address

    the new SQL service qsys2.dns_lookup_ip() should return all the DNS names. currently if only returns the first one found for your given DNS setup. the DIG command does return all associated names
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    Add command to obtain VPD from Managed Systems

    There are no CLI commands available to the end-user to obtain a Managed System's VPD. Currently, the only way to obtain this information is to manually log into the ASMI -> System Information -> Vital Product Data
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Increase size of hover over box in RDI

    When hovering over a variable in RDi (example RPG source) a box shows up containing the definition of the variable, however this box is too small to see the actual definition which requires pressing F2 and resizing it manually. Use Case: When hove...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    ALTER SEQUENCE: ALLOW SUBSELECT

    It would helpful to use an expression like a subselect with DDL, such as: alter sequence XYZ.SEQ1 restart with (select max(ID) + 1from XYZ.TAB1) Use Case: It is common to add rows to a table. If one of the columns is not an identity column but ins...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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