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Provide a POST /security/dcm/appdef/add to the RSE APIs (HTTP ADMIN5)

I have written an application to automate the Let's Encrypt process for issuing and renewing certificates. It would be very useful to have this as I don't believe that there is an API or any other method for automation.
21 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
12 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

PEP2.0 should allow three POWER generations in 1 pool

PEP2.0 currently supports TWO generations of Power hardware (like Power8+9, Power9+10 of Power10+11) in one pool. Suppose you currently have E950 and E1050 in one Enterprise Pool, adding an E1150 to the same pool is not possible. If you want to ke...
5 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Add TRUNCNBR(*EXPR) to the RPG IV CTL-OPT keyword to trunction results in assignments

When using legacy MOVE opcodes to copy one numeric variable to another, if Factor 2 contains a longer variable than the result and Factor 2's value actual fits into the Result field's variable, it does the assignment as expected. If Factor 2 conta...
12 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

REST API Certificate Automation

This is useful to customers looking to automate the renewals for HMC certificates.
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add a System Location column to HMC table view

Currently, the HMC table view lists managed systems with many details such as system name, type, serial number, and state etc. However, it lacks a dedicated “System Location” column. This RFE proposes adding a “System Location” field to the HMC ta...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Submitted

HMC V11 should support download the zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI

HMC V11 now supports collecting service data like VIOS snap, HMC debug and is able to automatically upload to an IBM case.If the client do not allow automatic upload or wants to collect data later, after the case has been created, then it would be...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

PowerVC topology evaluates actual mapping not powervc known details

PowerVC topology provides great vizualization of PowerVC expected zoning path to storage for a given vm. The map provided is based on PowerVC expected information as saved in it's internal databases. ideally there would be an option to query the b...
13 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

VMRM DR - Fail "verify" when rehearsal LPAR sees extra disks causing move failure

Please add checking for the correct number of disks to be part of either the "discover" or "verify" process (or both) since having the correct number of disks is a required part of the "move" process. When the incorrect number of flashcopy disks a...
13 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted