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Hardware Management Console

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    Please add relational view in new carbon GUI

    It adds convenience and time saving/productivity to view and work with all partitions, Client and VIOS partitions, for each system all in one view
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    give hscroot authorization to execute "pedbg -r"

    give hscroot authorization to execute "pedbg -r" command.
    about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 6 Future consideration

    More information when performing an HMC backup

    The backup critical console data process shows little information to the user whilst in progress. In old releases the status of the backup was shown, e.g., generating the archive file, offloading archive file. In current releases none of this info...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    VMWare Tools on vHMC

    Installation vmWARE Tools on virtual HMC
    over 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Not under consideration

    HMC: Show partial processors

    All Systems, RACK3,PartitionsTable View I clicked the icon off to the right to add Processor Allocated. However it only shows full processor allocations. Most of my lpars are subprocessor.I tried to use the export to export this list to a CSV but ...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Is a defect

    Adjustable columns in HMC table view

    Please consider individual configuration of table view of LPARs for each HMC user bya) allow removal of columns without interest inb) smaller column width (maybe shorter texts. In German "Partitions-ID" might be shortened by "ID")c) other example:...
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

    Make HMC permissions with clearer delineations and documentation

    Task role permissions remain difficult to properly distinguish and divide in the enhanced interface(documented by IBM as also being more difficult than classic interface). Task permissions should be distinct and well defined based on likely use of...
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Show progress of update download

    Imagine you have a Power server powered off to install a disruptive firmware update.Wouldn't it be nice to have some kind of idea about how long the install will take?I miss having a progress bar with file size, and estimated remaining download ti...
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

    Red flash and text "RMC connection: None?

    HMC Version 9 Release 1 Service pack 931Client has a red flash on all IBM i partitions and the text “RMC connection: None” As I understand only VIOS, AIX and Linux is using RMC connections and not IBM i, so it is very misleading to have the red fl...
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Is a defect

    HMC Rest API - Additional metrics

    Currently the HMC Rest API provides many metrics when a VM/LPAR is configured to use 'Shared Processors' - see attached file:• 'Metrics for LPAR using Shared Processors' But when a VM/LPAR is configured to use 'Dedicated Processors' these metrics ...
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Not under consideration

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