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Drop down lists to have a search function.

Currently, to find an item in the drop down lists in PowerVC, you have to look for the item that you need manually, there is no search function. In large environments with many projects and storage templates this becomes cumbersome. Having search ...
12 days ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

Dropdown lists to be sorted alphbetically

Currently the drop down lists in PowerVC appear to be sorted by the openstack object ID number. This is not very user friendly especially when there are a large number of items in the list. It would be much better if these lists were sorted alphab...
12 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Add to DCM the possibility of Post-Quantum Cryptography and also update version of OPENSSL to 3.50 for use it
12 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

mksysb for RHEL, ease of management and DR with same process as for AIX

After years of using AIX one gets used to work with an operating system that really support you in regards of DR. We can use mksysb, alt_disk_”functions” and LU for AIX but is more limited in using Linux features. We would like to see how mksysb c...
12 days ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Submitted

Warn customers before Defective PTFs are applied

Customers often download CUMEs or HIPERs well before they plan to apply them. During the interim, one or more PTFs may be marked defective, but the system allows the PTFs to be applied without warning customers. The following scenario is a possibl...
9 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

New QSYS2 Table function : QSYS2.WRITER_INFO

Hello, I wanted to retrieve the list of all the writers present on my client's machine.I tried with the SQL table : QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS.SELECT * FROM TABLE (QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL ','*DEVD')) WHERE OBJATTRIBUTE in ('PRTLAN','PRTVRT','PR...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Submitted

Align "upgvios" (HMC command) with "viosupgrade" (VIOS command)

As all (Ansible) development work has now stopped on the ibm.power_vios collection it would be very helpful to align the capabilities / command line flags of the (HMC command) "upgvios" with those of the (VIOS command) "viosupgrade". In doing so, ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Since PowerVC is using Python 3.11 and the RedHat OS still depends on Python 3.9. Can't you have PowerVC run in a virtual Python 3.11 environment?

The systems administrators (your customers) would benefit. As it stands today. we can either collect a powervc-diag or a sos report. we can't do both.
14 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

Add issuer certificate serial number in qsys2.certificate_info and QycuRetrieveCertificateInfo API

In the DCM GUI, the hierarchy view provides the certification chain: the authority (one or more) + the client/server certificate. However, there is no solution for finding this link using code: The qsys2.certificate_info SQL service and the QycuRe...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted