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UI enhancement : customize columns feature (disappeared in 2.0)

add back the rearrange/customize columns feature in the GUI
about 4 years ago in PowerVC Delivered

ACS - Run Command

IBM has done a good job replacing "System i Navigator" with the "Access Client Solutions" product. However there are a few features that System i Navigator provided that are not present in the ACS product. One feature I would like to request that ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

Expansion of password length for BRMS DDM Conncetions

IBM i allows for passwords of lengths up to 128 characters, to accommodate various security requirements. In our case, user passwords must be a minimum of 12 characters, and we are planning a move to a minimum length of 15 characters, for enhanced...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS Delivered

Improve the PowerVC Help Information Panel

Clicking the Help (?) Icon at the top of the PowerVC GUI causes paragraphs of text to appear which tell what PowerVC is and how to use it. At the bottom of this are links to YouTube Videos and other help. However, there is no easy way to scroll an...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC Delivered

PowerHA leaves *SYSBAS unknow

The biggest failure I have seen with PowerHa Switch or Fail over has been objects created in *SYSBAS. Most logical replication products have a tool to audit what is not being replicated. It would be great if PowerHA have an Audit tool to Compare a...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA Delivered

If ROHA takes CPU from another machine in EP, it returns it to EP as available, not to machine

We have two machines in EP and about 80 lpars on each (not all of them have PowerHA). In case of big RG fallover it will take the needed CPUs from the second machine and the CPUs it was using on primary machine can go to unusable part of EP till m...
over 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX Delivered

RSE "Filter Strings" Dialog Usability

This dialog must be one of the strangest and most incomprehensible Windows dialogs in any Windows application anywhere. I am always puzzled by: 1. The flow of control: How the buttons and dropdowns work, how they're related to one another, in what...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Delivered

Retain sort state of Object Table View after refresh

Please save the sort state of the Object Table View and restore it after refreshing the content of the view. Or, refresh the content, not the state, of the view. Use Case: In a long list of source members sorted by name, I am looking at a spot whe...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Delivered

to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN

For the storage template of the SVC (storwize) the client needs to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN of the storage template. We know that there is the advance...
over 8 years ago in PowerVC Delivered

Allow pwage expiration > 180 on user defined policy

When configuring user defined policy on HMC most values are configurable to what is needed to conform to our company password policy but pwage is not configurable to 365 or 99999. It is restricted to up to 180 days.
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console Delivered

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