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PowerVC reporting

Use of a PowerVC reporting would offer a chargeback possibility, combining VM name, core- and memory-minutes (and possibly other parts). This report would also be good to generate from ansible and use for service follupup. also input our price for...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

openBMC and HMC, report also power is back.

We often get support calls and HMC events stating PSU / power supply issues has been detected. When the power is back we dont get that event / info which then needs more work for admins to check and close event.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Make PTF listing available in XML output

I was looking at all the great "IBM i Services" and I thought of a new one:List the PTF's available at IBM which are not on my system.However I thought of doing it on my own. First I looked athttp://www-912.ibm.com/a_dir/as4ptf.nsf/WWWPTFBYDATE?Re...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

ACS IFS Copy function should use a permanent library

When ACS IFS to copy a stream file it will create a temporary library to perform the action. If the command is restricted it will fail and continue retrying without stop to run the CRTLIB command. The command either should not create a temporary l...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Checksum file for all downloads

It's time to have sha checksum files (a standard format checksum file with list of sums and files) for each set of files for download with fix central or entitled software.This should be a minimum for package distribution so that the files can be ...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

Add option to select icon in Edit-Preferences-Appearance-Window Setup as per iAccess for Windows

In iAccess for Windows you can select the icon that is displayed on the Windows taskbar and in the window itself via Edit-Preferences-Appearance -Window Setup. This function is missing in the equivilent option on ACS. This is a duplicate request a...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Not under consideration

Add option to enable auto adding vm's in "All Groups".

It would be nice to setup a group (i.e. Power 9 servers) and over time automatically have ALL VM's hosted on the frame also listed under the grouping view. Currently its a manual process to add the VM's. However once thats in place any new VM's wi...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Disable the NPS survey pop-up for specific users

Behavior seen in version V9R1M920 When loging into the HMC a popup is triggerd with a survey.The pop-up trigger is scheduled on a regular cadence according to the following schedule:1) 30 days after initial use by each user.2) 30 days after the in...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Cross-hair highlight cursor

The RDi editor needs a cross-hair highlight cursor similar to what existed in the Code/400 product. The "hairline cursor" does not persist between sessions and does not do a sufficient job of highlighting the cursor position when a lot of text is ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Add keyboard mapping to Access for Web on the IBM i

Client Access (Access for Windows) provided keyboard mapping. When using Access for Web it doesn't allow you to map specific functions (Field Exit, Destructive Backspace, Field Plus etc.) causing users to have a more difficult time entering data r...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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