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    Handle VMs removed from HMC but not VMRDR

    VMs removed from the HMC need to be removed automatically from KSYS or a warning displayed about the "orphaned" VM during the discover process.
    over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Submitted

    AIX ansible support for generating encrypted passwords.

    https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/issues/548 Request to add support to ansible for AIX to add user password generation with encryption
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    be able to send authlog to an external server

    We need authlog from the hmc sent to an external server (a clm for example) In the rsyslog config on the hmc, their is a config to send them to /var/hsc/log/secure : cat /etc/rsyslog.d/50-hmc-auth.conf => auth.* /var/hsc/log/secure & sto...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Enhance the 5250 console support provided by the HMC (remote) to support 132-column display.

    For a limited function IBM i LPAR (such as an FSFC target) where, for security reasons the only advisable interactive connection is via an HMC console, having a 132 column screen would provide an immeasurable benefit in viewing 132 position spoole...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Backport PCM FPIN congestion mechanism to AIX 7.2

    We have noticed that in an environments with FPIN notifications enabled and high read rates and a larger storage throughput capacity that host ingestion capacity, the behaviour of AIX 7.3 and AIX 7.2 are quite different, leading in AIX 7.2 to scen...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

    High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

    Enabling Port VLAN ID Update through VMRM DR using vNIC over SRIOV

    Enable the automatic update of Port VLAN IDs during VMRM DR failover through HMC to ensure network access for virtual machines.
    over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    AIX 7.2/7.3 EFS PCI DSS v4.0 Compliance

    PCI DSS v4.0 requires sensitive customer data to be encrypted at the file level. File security and volume level encryption are not sufficient. We believe EFS meets the PCI 4.0 standard but it is not documented anywhere.
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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