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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 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...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

Automatically disable disk paths that experience repeated timeouts

IBM i is not able to intelligently avoid repeatedly using non-functioning disk paths that identify themselves as functional. Repeated I/O timeouts cause long periods of disruption and very poor performance often resulting in abnormal termination o...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage Planned for future release

Script to change signed certificates on PowerSC MFA server.

It will be easy and mutliple step executions could be avoided providing a comprehensive way to change the CA signed certificates on MFA servers. We should be just able to provide the .pem certicate file to the script and the script should then con...
about 2 years ago in PowerSC Planned for future release

HMC delivering rperf 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.
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

CLI command to list LPAR description and Group tags

HMC V10R1 GUI allows you to define LPAR/VM description and group tags. This is wonderful feature specially on a multi-tenancy system. However, there is no CLI command to list this information. We use the CLI command for ease of reporting.
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

Add os license expiration as an optional column on list of partitions on the HMC

Add OS_license_expiration as an optional column available on the HMC list of partitions. See this link https://imgur.com/gEpL1ZO
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

Add a "Run Now" option on an HMC scheduled task

As part of HMC patching it's good to take a backup before after so a recovery point is available. Where the HMC has a scheduled backup already defined it would be convenient to have a "Run now" option against the schedule entry in the GUI.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

Download I/O Firmware to HMC

It would be nice to have the option to download a copy of the I/O Firmware to the HMC like how you can with a VIOS image. That way you don't have to use the IBM Service Web Site or an FTP server. It would make it faster to update I/O Cards if you ...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

Fibre Channel Port Label

The should be unification between labels set with the labelvios command for FC ports and the VIO FC device attribute setting.
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console Planned for future release

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