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alternative IP address for the PowerHA SystemMirror GUI communication

The official documentation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPHQG_7.2/rnstandard723/rnstd723.htm) says, that this is already implemented which is wrong.When the SMUI GUI starts gathering the clusterdata it connects not over the alt...
over 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

Job Monitors

Request to have JOB monitors added into monitoring using access client solutions navigator for i Use Case: job monitors work better to monitor the specific jobs that are running instead of message monitors
over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

Needing a search engine for BRMS history with Heritage BRMS not available in future

With removal of the Heritage BRMS, restores of IFS items are difficult when needing to do a search with the system UIM limitations on the green screen to find files if directory has more then 49917 files in it. Heritage BRMS had function for histo...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Future consideration

System Journal during restore

During scratch load (system restore after crash), the original System journal (QAUDJRN) was not restored instead, new journal was created using timestamp as name. This has created major problem for the system replication software (MIMIX) since it ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

In the run sql scripts window, save the open tabs so that they can be reopened automatically.

In the run sql scripts window, several tabs are often open. When you're working on them for several days in a row, it's tedious to have to reopen them each time you start the window.It would be very useful to be able to indicate whether or not you...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

Add CIS (benchmark) compliance profile for IBMi

In version 2.0.0.2 of PowerSC there is a "IBMi best practices" profile only for IBMi agents. For our VIOS/AIX agents we use the CIS profile and we want to be able to use a CIS profile for IBMi agents also.Provide a CIS compliance profile, please.
almost 3 years ago in PowerSC 3 Future consideration

LPM CLI validate - choose highest speed pair for MSP.

We had a case wherein using CLI LPM, we only chose a single MSP. LPM added a secondary MSP, but the MSP chosen was the 1gb mgmt interface of the VIO servers. this caused us problems, and is also not optimal. LPM should choose the fastest interface...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

RDi 9.6: RSE filter/show in table - select member by modified date like F17 in PDM

Rational Developer for i (RDi) 9.6.0.7: RSE filter/show in table - select member by modified date like F17 in PDM.Actually in RSE is not possibile to filter the member list (filter or show in table view) by modified date. Use Case: For example: I ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

AC922 - BMC-GUI usable in HMC-GUI

make usage of BMC-GUI possible like we know from cassical-FSP Power-machines ( ASMI )
about 4 years ago in Power Systems Design 0 Not under consideration

command redirection for HMC rsh-shell

classical command redirection not available in HMC rsh-shell. ping 192.168.1.10 > ping_test.txtbash : ping_test.txt: restricted : cannot redirect output
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration