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HMC V10R2 - Serviceable events icon panel shows past closed events as open

Hi, We are currently running V10R2M1040. Like very much the new UI after upgrading from V9. Have noticed a few 'quirks' though, one being the following: When clicking on the spanner icon in the top right of the header, it opens the Serviceable eve...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Is a defect

Remove SSH dependency for RDi

Currently RDi requires SSH to be active to support remote debugging. We want to limit SSH access due to security requirements which is currently not possible. The debugger already runs on port 3825... can't it be changed to fully support remote de...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

Find String exclusion filter

It would be great to be able to optionally exclude comment lines from the "Find String" search in RDi. Use Case: Searching through only through only one (German) of our bespoke source libraries for "rechnung" (english = invoice) resulted in over 2...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Add weakly distinct types to V7R3

Hi, Please support "weak types" as documented at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6174189 on V7R3 as well. This would be a major benefit in migrating DDS based databases with REF FLD's to SQL. Thanks,Paul Use Case: Hi, Please support "weak t...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Process improvement to quiesce workloads prior to Live Kernel Update

Currently clients have to follow an elaborate process to quiesce workloads manually, and they would prefer to have support from the LKU preparation process to identify what apps or processes are impacting LKU. Evan Zoss and Carl Burnett have asked...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

PowerVC pre-check enhancement to check backend processes and dependencies so that 'green means green'

PowerVC health check users need to be able to trust that PowerVC dependent activity like LKU will complete successfully, and when PowerVC reports 'green' when that is not the case for the whole stack, the user needs to see what needs to be address...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

VMTools installed in Virtual HMC

Now that Virtual HMC is supported to install in VMware environments it would be very nice if the installer came with VMTools or if there were some way to install VMTools on the Virtual HMC VM. These tools help with issues when accessing the VM dir...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Various "errors" in QUSRDIR joblog

Using the EIM API's to delete source and/or target mappings results in various errors (GLD0405, GLD021, GLD0407) in the QUSRDIR joblog. We request to do proper error handling so logging these "non-errors" is avoided as it is time consuming and con...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Enhance PowerVC error messages

PowerVC needs better error messaging.
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

display the progress of the installation of the ifix during the LKU process.

We are implementing live updates for our AIX environment, during testing we noticed that there is no logging or a way to monitor the progress of the ifix install process during live updates. See case TS002203127, we could not see why the live upda...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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