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nconnect NFS mount option for AIX

It will be useful to have nconnect NFS mount option like in Linux world available in AIX also to improve performance of NFS mounts for WAN connections and / or for connections with limited bandwith per one tcp session. In AIX NFS mount uses only o...
9 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

HMC should work as ntp server for eBMC ntp clients

As Pete Heyrman documented: The enterprise baseboard management controller (eBMC) was introduced in Power10 and provides similar system management functionality as the FSP. With respect to time, the eBMC time-of-day clock cannot be synced with the...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

Add a flag to HMC CLI commands to display attribute names inline with attributes when using -F filter on atributes (similiar to --header)

When scripting on HMC CLI you have basically two options for filtering attributes. For example 1. lshmcusr | grep $USER name=dummy,taskrole=hmcoperator,description='Dummy User',pwage=30,resourcerole=ALL:,authentication_type=local,remote_webui_acce...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Provide Favorites for Integrated File System

I have a number of specific locations on the IFS where I look for files. It may be for reviewing logs, troubleshooting problems, or adjusting a configuration file. Having favorite IFS locations would allow us to quickly go to a file folder and acc...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Planned for future release

Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
12 months ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC.

The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC. This should also be available for the entire managed system. The energy costs calculated down to the work performed is becoming increasingly important for customers when th...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Extend RPG compiler messages to support modern RPG naming

The current design for the compiler messages does not support the enhancements to modernize the RPG language. When messages are returned to a client via the *EVENTF option, the replacement values for the messages are limited to legacy system names...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Planned for future release

proxy support for emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix

Corporate AIX customers often use a proxy in their company to control internet access. However, there is no proxy support in emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix.These commands only work with direct internet access. To make these new commands ...
over 1 year ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

Allow DCL-S within enum to support exact parameter passing

I would find it useful to use ENUMs with Exact parameter passing. At present, anything within an enum is implicitly defined using "DCL-C". Exact parameter passing requires variables to be defined as being LIKE the same parameter type, and so an en...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Planned for future release

Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release