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Enable possibility to remove servers no longer in CMC concept.

When using the CMC Portal you get distracted, having information of servers, no longer in use. There is also subscription warning messages turning up. It.s annoying, we use cmc portal daily using Capcity Monitoring, Enterprise Pools2.0, Inventory ...
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Under review

Cloud Connector STATUS needs a better method of identifying HMCs

The STATUS tab for Cloud Connector ( under Setup ) does not provide a simple and consistent method of identifying the HMCs. It would be helpful to have an additional column that contains the name of the HMC to keep consistency with other screens a...
9 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Under review

Need to see RPM for Fans for each Power Server

We have had massive Datacenter problems due to wrong running Fan Speed on several E1080 so i want to see at the HMC GUI and also getting via RestAPI and/or CLI Fan Speed in RPM for each Fan per Power Server and an average
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Allow CHGAUTCOL command to enable authority collection on objects with type *USRPRF

Use case: A user profile object is secured with *PUBLIC *USE, allowing anyone on the system to submit jobs to run under that unsecured user profile. Securing the *USRPRF with *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE might break some existing processes which rely on the e...
10 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

Globalization/Secondary languages considerations when upgrading the IBM i

Good day. Many IBM i systems use secondary languages that need to be taken into consideration when planning to upgrade the IBM i OS. If your machine uses secondary languages, the LPPs languages must also be upgraded to the newer version, the langu...
11 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

Deliver emfc_power as command in AIX for SAN connection troubleshooting

One of the first steps when working with IBM is (after snap´s) is to run the command emfc_power to verify TX/RX/ levels. This command could be useful as a standard command also including 25/10Gbs LAN power status check, as maybe event driven alert...
11 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

PowerSC anti malware feature should have an option to integrate with the FIM functionality

The PowerSC anti-malware feature should provide an option to integrate with the FIM (File Integrity Monitoring) functionality. If the user selects this option, then whenever a monitored file is modified, PowerSC should automatically scan this file...
11 months ago in PowerSC 2 Under review

Add OBJECT ATTRIBUTE (PF, PRTF, LF, C, RPGLE, etc.) to the object selection for QGYOLOBJ API.

Using only the object type (*FILE, *PGM, etc) with QGYOLOBJ is okay, but in the specific case of object type *FILE, there are so many variations, DDM, PF, LF, PRTF, and so on. Often when you specify *FILE you only want one of those subtypes or obj...
11 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Under review

HMC V10R2 - Configuration of the initial screen

HMC V10R2M1040 came with the beautiful dashboard as the initial screen. Unfortunately not everyone likes to see the dashboard. Some of colleagues would like to see the list of the managed systems as the initial screen in HMC - same as with V10R2M1...
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Create specific and restricted permissions to run run lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all frames

Create specific and restricted permissions to run lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all frames. Actually, user shall have activate partition to run these commands. We would like separate activate partition from running lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all ...
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

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