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    Request for giving a report on Power System Uptime from HMC

    It would be good if we have a utility in Power System Management Console in which Power Servers are connected, that will give us the uptime report the IBM Power servers ?
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    nimadm upgrade with cachefs fails to install efix because it can't expand a filesystem. While installp can expand a filesystem. It would improve the upgrade proccess if emgr could do the same.

    Because of the issue with emgr it is neccessary after the upgrade to boot a lpar from from altinst_rootvg and then install the missing efix, so applications cannot start.Without the limitation the lpar would be started with all the fixes and it wo...
    about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    add LACP mode bonding option to HMC

    HMC allows only old-fashioned bond mode, but not the most commonly used LACP (802.ad) bond mode.Please add appropriate parameters to "chhmc -c netbond" and corresponding options in the HMC GUI.
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Command saveupgdata check space only AIX/LINUX - df

    Now command savupgdata only works with sftp server where command df is avalible.I have windows sftp and this command - df not give a free space from my server sftp works in windows. Currently, it is not possible to send data to servers other than ...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add info in the General Properties [Description] Field

    Request an HMC cli command or add to an existing HMC command to add info in the "Description" field under both the Managed Systems and VIO "General Properties" the same as can in the GUI.This will aid our automation.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

    Is there any option to sort the managed systems on HMC

    Changing managed systems sequence on HMC
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    verify upgrade or downgrade for Firmware levels?

    maybe ticket, maybe function?When you use update, change LIC to a newer release and retrieve from IBM service web site, the selector shows only old LIC versions. Is this meant to allow a downgrade, is this an error, or just a weird method of telli...
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

    Container support for PowerHA GUI

    It will be useful to have the ability to get a pre-installed and setup WPAR or Ansible based Container Image for the GUI server of PowerHA
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

    User generated list of IP that the HMC will NOT use for RCM connections.

    When an RCM connection is established to the PowerHA cluster service IP that moves from node to node, you can end up in a situation where you cannot dynamically increase CPU, and memory on a system. I would like to exclude PowerHA Service IPs from...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    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 Planned for future release

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