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Hardware Management Console

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Redesign HMC welcome text to be unformatted or allow HTML tags

The HMC welcome text is automatically reformatted in the HMC web interface and does not met the layout conform the input file. This RFE propose a redesign of the HMC web user interface to allow: - Create a button to allow unformatted text so the l...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Create custom groups in enhanced interface where we can specify filters as in classic interface

We would like to be able to do the same as we can in the Classic interface as descriped here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER7/p7ha1/user-definedgroups.htm​
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

DNS Configuration while installing VIOS from HMC

When VIOS is installed from HMC using ‘Management Console Image' installation method with the wizard ‘Add VIOS Wizard', the user (e.g. padmin), after login into VIOS , cannot access or even ping any other host using the hostname unless the host re...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

HMC ESA / Call Home Setup using ALIAS instead of IP Address as SSL Proxy

System: HMCActor: Client needs additional feature Client is using HMC to manage Power Server with multiple AIX Partitions. Since this is a production server, they wanted to setup the ESA/Call home feature. Description:In the ESA / Call home setup,...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Add shared processor pool to partition table view

Add the shared processor pool that partitions are in as a column option on the partition list table view. This would make it much easier to manage multiple shared processor pools. The information appears in HMC scanner, but that's a lot of effort ...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

put back the MOVE resource fuction on the HMC

The new versions with the Enhanced version of the HMC do not have a MOVE function. a move can be accomplished but it is not a straight forward operation like it was on the classic version of the HMC
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

HMC replication for users is incomplete

Using data replication for users profiles copies user and password as well but misses to copy ssh keys.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

LPM removes members from Groups on HMC

HMC Groups to tag a group of LPARs removes the tagged LPARs when LPM moves the LPAR to a different frame.
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

HMC - Correct Operating System version information for IBM i LPARs

The enhanced HMC interface shows incorrect information for the IBM i Operating System version that is loaded.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

HMC Reconnect

The option to signoff from the HMC with a disconnect allowing you to reconnect a session at later time.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration