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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Hardware Management Console

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Cert Utility on HMC

Instead of managing Certificate CSR creation and CERT import through GUI , it would be great if we have CLI to do.
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Customer request to change the order of the managed system in "vtmenu".

Customer has several HMCs which manage several power servers, they like to see all the order of server in HMC can stay with consistency in vtmenu,
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC to generate alert email when UAK fails to be retrieved from IBM

If an HMC sends a request for new UAK (chsvcinfo) and IBM does not have record of an active entitlement, currently the process fails quietly. The only notification in an entry in the HMC event log. This failure is more significant than that, so sh...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

LDAP and multiple base DN support

We configure our HMC's with LDAP integration for user management. With users in various regions around the world, and how our LDAP OU's are configured, the scope has to be set to sub, and very high up in the OU tree. This results in a login delay ...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

CLI Import for Certificates

System: Supported pSeries HMC Code VersionsActor: AIX/HMC SAs Description: HMC code by default uses self-signed certificates. In this day and age of exploiting weaknesses, businesses are blocking self-signed certs via the browser. Yet certificates...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Allow install of client CA certificates to the HMC to allow SSL proxy functionality.

Many organizations use proxy servers to control/manage external traffic. Some of these (Palo Alto Networks, for one) create a man-in-the-middle certificate so that SSL traffic can be proxied the same way as HTTP traffic. An example of this activit...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

vHMC: Show full screen

We are running x86 vHMCVersion 9Release 1Service Pack 940Build Level 1911021524Base Version V9R1Model Type Ve67-f61Serial Number 0e11c02BIOS 6.00HMC driver n/aMH01831 - HMC V9R1 M931MH01836 - HMC V9R1 M940 When I look at the screen from vCenter th...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Provide a means to discover NTP status

There are means to configure the HMC to sync to external NTP time servers, but there is no way to demonstrate that the HMC NTP configuration was actually successful. There are some NTP messages logged to /var/log/messages, but those logs are insuf...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC: Add functions to "Enhanced +" view currently only available in "Classic" view.

Trying to do dynamic lpar and create a new virtual scsi adapter and there is no such option in the Enhanced View.IBM says the wave of the future is command line and no one uses GUI.I beg to differ.<snip>HMC ENHANCED+ GUI When using the enhan...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Provide the option to schedule the repeated monthly job from HMC GUI

I would like to schedule the monthly job(first day of each month) from HMC GUI. But it seems to me that there is no option to set it up. I can specify the number of weeks between running repeated job. But "first of the month" is not offered as an ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered