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    Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

    We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
    5 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

    When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
    8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Support for changing the name of a storage pool without impacting powervc

    Adding the ability to change the name of a storage pool without impacting PowerVC would simplify storage management. Currently, if a storage pool's name is changed directly on the storage array (an "out-of-band" change), PowerVC does not detect th...
    4 months ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

    Restoring individual Authorization Lists.

    When moving one customer from a SAAS LPAR to his own LPAR, you must be restoring ALL user profiles to get all Authorization lists. The SAAS LPAR is running multiple customers with over 1500 user profiles. If you want to move one customer with abou...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration
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    Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

    Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

    Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
    10 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    A SQL view to display the information on a line

    A view or function that provides information as in the DSPLIND command or the API QDCRLIND More here : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=ssw_ibm_i_76/apis/QDCRLIND.html
    5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    Further enhancements to the SQL scalar GENERATE_SPREADSHEET functionality to allow naming a sheet

    Along with the required enhancements to ACS to enable this in the scalar function, provide the ability to name that sheet when creating it in the xls or xlsx workbook. We now have the ability to append a sheet and specify which sheet to add so the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    RDI: Remember last Filter view > Date

    When right clicking in a source and select Filter view > Dateit allways shows the current date and less than.In almost 100% of cases I change it to a lesser date for example 251001 and search for greater than. This works OK. I can see what has ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

    With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 7 Future consideration

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