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Hardware Management Console

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Updating COD on HMC

Updating COD on HMCRequest For Enhancement to change this dialog behavior.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

HMC Enhanced Interface, Allow DLPAR of resource that is owned by another LPAR where that LPAR is not active

In the Enhanced HMC Interface, you cannot add an adaptor that is owned by another LPAR, even when that LPAR is not activated. This is possible in both Classic and Command-Line Interfaces. This is particularly important when sharing SAS or Fibre ad...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

Let's Encrypt support for HMC

Add Let's Encrypt integration to HMC code to automate the security certificate management on these appliances. For clarity, more details about Let's Encrypt athttps://letsencrypt.org/about/
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

POWER8 HMC

POWER8 HMC noise production
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

Manage Task and Resource Role window size and capabilities

HMC GUI interface: go into users and rolesselect- manage tasks and resource roles:modify - manage resource roleyou have to use the slide bar constantly to see the partition name for every server you want to add and it returns back to the left as s...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

"Learn more" link in "Transmit Service Information" window of the HMC is incomplete

Customer is trying to send all kind of data to IBM, but it is unclear, when the send button is pushed, that the data is really uploaded to IBM. He want to know more and see the "learn more" option" but notice this is less and incomplete informatio...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Create custom groups in enhanced interface where we can specify filters as in classic interface

We would like to be able to do the same as we can in the Classic interface as descriped here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER7/p7ha1/user-definedgroups.htm​
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

DNS Configuration while installing VIOS from HMC

When VIOS is installed from HMC using ‘Management Console Image' installation method with the wizard ‘Add VIOS Wizard', the user (e.g. padmin), after login into VIOS , cannot access or even ping any other host using the hostname unless the host re...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

put back the MOVE resource fuction on the HMC

The new versions with the Enhanced version of the HMC do not have a MOVE function. a move can be accomplished but it is not a straight forward operation like it was on the classic version of the HMC
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

LPM removes members from Groups on HMC

HMC Groups to tag a group of LPARs removes the tagged LPARs when LPM moves the LPAR to a different frame.
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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