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Hardware Management Console

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    Resource role permissions should be transfered to new system during LPM

    Current situation: When permission to a specific LPAR is defined in a given resource role, permission is automatically given to the hosting server. If the LPAR is migrated to another hosting server, permission to this new server is not given autom...
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Add "make bootable" option to Format Media for USB Flash Drives

    As the 7063 range of HMCs has no physical DVD, using USB Flash Drives for upgrading to a new release has become more popular. At the moment, we require a Linux workstation to USB flash drive so that it is bootable. For those not familiar with the ...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    a move to function for resouces

    to dynamically move a resource CPU,MEMORY,IO to a partition it takes 14-25 mouse clicks there is no direct way to move a device
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Monitor the real-time power usage of the managed host through HMC

    How to query the real-time power consumption of the host power supply through the hmc command line ?
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under 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.
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

    Simplify HMC update

    Please make HMC update similar to Firmware update.Ability to download directly from IBM/local and update to the latest in same level or upgrade to next level.something simple like chrome browser update.
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Allow sizing and Left, Right or Center Justification of Column view with v9 HMC GUI

    GUI Column Display of LPAR attributes needs better custom sizing and descriptions of some information needs to be improved for user readability. For example some columns such as LPAR memory might only require a few characters to display, but use m...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Option for creating vswitches in Enhanced+ HMC GUI

    With recent migration to Enhanced+ GUI, we've lost the ability to create vswitches from GUI with no connected to HMC NIC We're creating them from HMC CLI with chhwres, but it would be far more intuitive to have an option to simply create an vswitc...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

    Virtual Networks display - improve the order of items listed, or allow the user to save a preferred order

    HMC V9 and V10 GUI - the Virtual Networks display can have a high number of virtual networks listed. Please can these be ordered either by PVID ascending or by Virtual Network Name ascending to allow the user to organise the display. Alternatively...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Add the ability to split out the 5250 firewall rule so that non-secure ports can be disabled or blocked while allowing the secure connection through.

    We had a request from the ISERIES Team to block non-secure 5250 connections. we were not able to satisfy this request due to the restrictions on the HMC Firewall.
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

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