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    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

    HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

    HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 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...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

    Do not re-create QSECEXP1 job schedule when changing profile expiration date

    Hi IBM team, When changing the date in the USREXPDATE of the CHGUSRPRF command, the QSECEXP1 job schedule is re-created even if it already exists. Also, the description disapears and the 'Scheduled by' is changed with the profile that did the chan...
    12 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    ACS Printer session reset outq private authority when it is recreated.

    Current Observation: When the system recreates a printer device, the associated output queue (OUTQ) object’s private authority is reset to its default. If there are spooled files in the OUTQ, the system does not recreate the OUTQ—even if the print...
    12 days ago in IBM i / Print 0 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

    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

    lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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

    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

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