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Feature to add comments on maintenance mode , displayed in the hosts tab

We are many to work on PowerVC , including IBM workers who need to operate on hosts for upgrade purposes or replacing parts. Sometimes we need to act on hosts but we see that it is in maintenance, but we don't know who put it in this mode, or even...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Filter vtmenu's list of Managed Systems

The list of managed systems shown in vtmenu contains systems from both the primary and secondary sites.During the DR testing exercise at the secondary site there is the possibility of a production managed system being selected by mistake.The reque...
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Small Independent Disk Pools

The idea is to enable the configuration of small independent auxiliary storage pools from partial disk units on a single IBM i server. This idea appears to be similar to the ability to create micro partitions and host many IBM i instances on a sin...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration

Add Help Text at bottom while changing the password without Reason Code

When user changes profile password and if the password does not meet password rules, error message display with reason code at the bottom of the screen. It is difficult for end user to understand or find the description. Hence if the description d...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Multiple tiers to be supported within shared storage pool

When starting to implement PowerVC and are using SSPs. In the PowerVC Env Checker, is seen the following errors for multiple SSP pools: Shared Storage Pool ValidationsCould not access the shared storage pool in cluster tier.HMC_CLUSTER_SSP_CONFIGU...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

libHBAAPI.a in AIX has hardcoded max num adapters (set at 32) - needs to be increased or made a dynamic table (as per RHEL)

For AIX versions AIX 7.2 (actually AIX 5.3 and above) libHBAAPI.a (devices.common.IBM.fc.hba-api) define the max number of devices is set using the following define (in san.h): #define HBA_MAX_NUM_ADAPTERS 32 In AIX, in libHBAAPI.a a fc port is eq...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

HMC Security Concern with initial login screen

The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) customer has advised that their Security Team would like to have the initial login screen modified in the HMC code to the remove the information displayed which indicates the number of managed systems...
almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

powervc gui certificate need support for DNS

Currently CA signed certificate only support IP's. when add's DNS names in the SubjectAltName PowerVC fails on the function.
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Change the Format of downloads on ESS website to ISO

The industry standard for DVDs is ISO and it would be easier to have the downloads in this format. Use Case: Standard windows software doesn't have the UDF format as a source and makes creating DVDs more difficult.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 5 Not under consideration

Disabled the looging of negative sql codes in the JOBLOG of a JOB

In RGP developments embedding SQL when we encounter a Negative SQL code, even if it is managed in the program, it returns lines in the processing JOBLOG.So a log of several thousand lines is generated if the program returns a lot of negative SQL c...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

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