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    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

    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

    Add advanced vNIC to HMC Collection

    If you have a trunked VLAN on the network side, set the VLAN as PortVLANID. This is used very often. Unfortunately, there is no option to do this with Ansible in the HMC-collection. i create also a git issue https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-hm...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Rsyslog with omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support

    Hello, I request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support. We are encountering the following error in our environment: 7216.011687000:main Q:Reg/w0 : errmsg.c: Called LogMsg, msg: omkafka: error cr...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Show VLAN amount per vAdapter when creating new virtual networks in HMC GUI

    Show VLAN amount per vAdapter when creating new virtual networks in HMC GUI
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    HMC LPAR configuration CPU/Memory allocation checker and advisor

    Would be great HMC will be doing checks in case there is configuration attempt not following best practices according NUMA architecture or ratio between EC vs vCPU. Check ratio between CPU / Memory according SRAD best practice. In case will be pos...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    about 2 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

    CMC to display available and used ECOD processor days

    Several of my customers extensively use Elastic Capacity on Demand on/off processor days for general usage on E880C Enterprise servers configured with eight permanently active of 192 core E880C systems. They experience a challenge in monitoring th...
    almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Long variable names in CLLE

    Allow variables to be defined with names longer than 10 characters in CL. This will allow CL code to be more readable and potentially reference long column names in tables.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Planned for future release

    Automatic Disk space reclamation option for alt_rootvg_op command

    When freeing up saved rootvg with alt_rootvg_op command it would be very helpful to add an additional option for doing automatic space reclamation to the disk subsystem where the alt_rootvg resides on.
    almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

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