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PDU cables shorter than 4.3M for in-rack connections

The PDU cable (ex. #6654) is currently only length of 4.3M, although PDU are connected any components in a rack in most cases.The PDU cable is too long and become a big cable roll under the rack. And these big cable rolls are as many as PDUs.Pleas...
about 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted

Change view e permissione for role "VIEWER"

We operate as an ICP for several of our Power Systems client. As we explore the different cloud users' roles in PowerVC, we realize the Viewer user role is the one that fits as the most except for one thing. It is missing the 'resource usage' view...
7 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

ACS Hotspots

We would like to take full advantage of ACS Hotspots but there is a conflict with programs where the mouse button has been enabled to recognise a double-click. The ENTER at cursor position also treated as double-click takes precedence and returns ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Command to fetch VPD

Recently, after server firmware update, when the server was power cycled, it didn't came back up and the support team asked to upload the dumps from HMC. It was a production server and the timeline was very tight. So, now the client wants to get t...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

The customer should be able to access the transferred files directly on the support page in the event of a support case.

the customer should be able to access the transferred files directly on the support page. In the case of one client, several support staff can process the case. It would therefore be useful if these persons could access the transferred files direc...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Have GUI display, monitor, and report the RCCG names and states

Add a current status of the remote copy consistency groups to the GUI. VMRMDR sets up the VMRDG_6_ksysclu RCCG but does not display them in the GUI. If one gets of the RCCGs gets out of the “consistent_synchronized” state, then the customer tries ...
about 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Allow more than 10000 lines on System Debugger

When debugging old COBOL programs made with a software générator, 10 000 lines is not enought
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Consolided Capacity monitoring view

In Capacity Monitoring/Performances page, CPU installed, Available, Allocated, Actived can only be shown in each Power view not in the main page (only core usage and cores available). To have a consolided view (with csv export) could be usefull fo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Improve the lrud behavior when free the large amount of memory.

When lrud free the memory, it will enable the interrupt disabled mode and block other threads. When customer runs the time-sensitive applications, it might lead to an application time out and then the transaction failures.
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Support additional memory on 4-core server models. 128GB or even 256GB.

Over time POWER processors have gained capability. From 4,200 CPW on a POWER6 to over 20,000 CPW on today's Power10. When POWER7 was introduced the CPU went from 4,200 CPW per core to 6,000 per core AND supported memory on low end servers went f...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 1 Submitted