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    Add ability to set the idle timeout when LDAP auto-manage is enabled

    Due to recent audit findings, we are enabling auto-manage using LDAP groups to audit users who have access to the HMC. The plan is to have users inherit user properties defined in the LDAP groups. During testing, we noticed when LDAP is configured...
    12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    LPM should not switch to Default Processor Pool

    During LPM via HMC-GUI (V10 R3 SP1051 / MF71688) the setting for processor pool switches back to the Default Processor Pool, if not explicitely changed by drop-down menu. Since Processor Pools are very important to us (licences) AND there's a veri...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Correct the way AIX NFS4 client constructs its clientID, so that it is persistent across LPMs, as it is required to be.

    Current behavior/design Currently, the clientID generated by AIX NFS4 client can possibly change after an LPM. This is because of the current design. In the current design, NFS4 client uses the nodeID as a part of the clientID, and the nodeID can ...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

    Show HMC Firewall "Available applictions" in HMC CLI

    I would like to see possibility to list all possible Applications that can be configured on HMC firewall, on HMC CLI in a similar way as they are shown in HMC GUI (see atttached screenshot) Currently lshmc --firewall gives list only for the rules ...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Improve time to get Full Sysdump in Highend Mission critical systems with huge amount of memory

    As IBM we describe Highend Power servers as one of the most resilient and available platforms to hold mission critical workloads. Those servers have increasing amount of memory (several TB) and hold many workloads in parallel thanks to our PowerVM...
    over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 0 Planned for future release

    Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings)

    Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings) e. g. chpcm -l "location" to reflect where the managed system resides and to be able to achieve more granularity, when it comes to sustainability ...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    HMC - Turn OFF/ON attention led is not working for user with role other then hmcsuperadmin

    System: Hardware Management Console Actor: Server Administrator Description: Administrator use HMC to managed Server and perform task on VIOS system from HMC console.HMC allow to change attention led status (turn on / off) also HMC allow to execut...
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) will help HMC to integrate in the Agentic-AI ecosystem

    Unfortunately, it is currently only possible to execute actions or collect information via REST API,HMC cli and the GUI. However, in the age of AI and WatsonX, other interfaces are needed. It would be good if MCP services were also offered in the ...
    6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    HMC delivering CPW 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.
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    AIX: OpenSSH support for authenticating with FIDO2 credentials.

    Having OpenSSH at least in version 8.2 and getting support for ed25519-sk type of keys would be a gain.
    about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

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