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Enable in IBM i Navigator for i Monitors the option to press F4 to set the IBM i trigger command

I use and recommend the System & Messages Monitor from IBM Navigator for i. I think we can improve this tool adding the great F4 option to built the command in the trigger command. If I'm not wrong now I must built it on green screen and then ...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Navigator For I GUI interface and Function Usage

New Navigator for i is not designed to hide those icons (see figure 1) The function Usage (figure 2) is the solution to restrict usage but some ID function no longer works : example product functions ==> QIBM_XD1_OPNAV I find it frustrating tha...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Cloud Connector Status report also HMC hostname

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

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

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

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...
about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

The possibility to add a secondary ip address in the ASP COPY DESCRIPTION configuration.

It is useful if your primary management port on the SAN is unreachable for some reason.
16 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

User with only (but all) advanced roles assigned should be able to perform LPM (Migrate)

Even if all additional roles at once are assigned to a user the "Migrate" option does not appear on LPARs. This should be the case, because such users have the ability to clone, delete and move VMs and volumes - which is everything a LPM does. Aft...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Enable iASP column in IBM Navigator list view

IBM Navigator for i brings in new functionality in every release and customers are appreciating it. However we are still missing this IASP column in the view when we are viewing two or more systems together. For the disk usage we have *SYSBAS incl...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

"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