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Script to change signed certificates on PowerSC MFA server.

It will be easy and mutliple step executions could be avoided providing a comprehensive way to change the CA signed certificates on MFA servers. We should be just able to provide the .pem certicate file to the script and the script should then con...
10 months ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

physical port on destination side for the migrating client LPAR

Physical port (FCS)on destination side for the migrating client LPAR can not see during the LPM on HMC GUI , so as mentioned the option is only available from HMC CLI with the command below: ~> migrlpar -o v -m <source_managed_system> -t ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Option to have 'key:value' pair tags in Power HMC.

HMC V10R3 allows to define LPAR description and group tags, but it is not possible to create the tags in the 'key:value' format. This is a standard format on other platforms and already adopted on IBM Cloud. There are several modernization, monito...
10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

The possibility to add a secondary ip address in the ASP COPY DESCRIPTION configuration.

It is useful if your primary management port on the SAN is unreachable for some reason.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Enabling Port VLAN ID Update through VMRM DR using vNIC over SRIOV

Enable the automatic update of Port VLAN IDs during VMRM DR failover through HMC to ensure network access for virtual machines.
about 2 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

AIX, VIOS and HMC Lifecycle Information API

Dear Team, Looks like there is no API available to fetch table data from the below VIOs and AIX pages. It would be a nice to have feature, If there is an API available similar to FLRT API. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/powervm-vios-lifecycle-i...
11 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

High priority login shell during low memory conditions

Over the years AIX has become very stable, but occasionally there's an AIX system that seems to hang when experiencing low memory/paging conditions. On the system some processes (that don't need to allocate new memory) continue to work happily, pi...
10 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

BRMS Web GUI interface needs to be made available for 5770BR1

Fortra has developed a web interface for BRMS replacing the old web navigator interface that was deprecated. This new interface is only available in the new software subscription for BRMS, 5770BR2 with PTFs SJ00271and SJ00272.Not every customer is...
6 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

FOR-EACH with record level access

The new FOR-EACH is today working on list, however it would be nice if - in the future - it could be extended to also handle record level access. ( and perhaps also user defined iterators) The basic idea is to make tighter and more concise coding ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 9 Not under consideration

HMC delivering rperf calculation

Would simplify and speed up the process to gather this info, which will be helpful in the sizing of new customer environments and comparison of customer environments.
10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release