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    IBM PowerSC should provide an option to mark a failed compliance rule as exception in the GUI

    The IBM PowerSC Compliance Automation feature allows users to run compliance check. Once the check is complete, the GUI shows the result and displays the failed rules. If at least 1 rule has failed then the compliance status of the LPAR is shown a...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

    Add GUI options for LU functions in Shared Storage Pool

    Today there is not a GUI option to handle snapshots of logical volumes / disks in Shared Storage Pool.
    7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    PowerSC Patch Management feature should also manage HIPER ifixes

    The PowerSC Patch Management is an excellent feature to manage security ifixes. There are few customers who want PowerSC to also manage HIPER ifixes. Currently PowerSC only download security ifixes. It would be nice if PowerSC can also download an...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

    RSCT - Change to Communication Group formation over entirely uncommon subnets

    When creating a RSCT "Peer Domain" cluster in a DR setup (2 Data Centers, multiple km apart), and with multiple Networks. It can happen that unwanted, or not working RSCT Communication Groups get created. It would be useful to have a capability to...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

    cron log auto maintenance

    Customer met /var full problem several times in VIOS 3.1. I checked their environment and found /var/adm/cron/log is very huge. It causes filesytem full. I know /etc/cronlog.conf maintained cron's log, but VIOS doesn't set that file. I know cusome...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 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.
    7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Enhance the AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa

    The AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa have in Standard AIX a lot less rights than in Trusted AIX. It should be equal. At least for the components which are available on both AIX types.
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Fast switch between VIOSes in GUI

    When you inspect or change the configuration of one VIOS on the managed system, you usually want to repeat the same on the second VIOS. To achieve it, if GUI is now in one of the VIOS properties, the administrator must select first the managed sys...
    7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    VIO LPM SAN and Network Virtualization Assignment

    Currently on the larger hardware like 880/980s we are running 4 VIOs, for restricted/nonrestricted VMs. When VMs are LPMed from one frame to another the network and SAN virtual connections aren't always assigned to the same VIO pairing. This can l...
    almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    IBM PowerSC should provide option to do selective apply and undo rules from a compliance profile

    The IBM PowerSC compliance automation feature is used to apply hardening rules. Currently the way it works is - we create a security profile and apply the complete profile on the LPAR. There is no way to selectively apply only few rules from the p...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

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