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authentication both OS and LDAP at same time

it would be great and useful to add the capability of authenticate both ways using ldap and also SO based in case of my LDAP user gets locked or, let's say an AD problem...the solution right now is to re configure to OS (losing any actual config o...
2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Provide MFA support for IBM Storage via PowerSC MFA

Useful because the customer does not need another MFA solution for his Power Systems and IBM Storage
2 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

Improve time to get Full Sysdump in Highend Mission critical systems with huge amount of memory

As IBM we describe Highend Power servers as one of the most resilient and available platforms to hold mission critical workloads. Those servers have increasing amount of memory (several TB) and hold many workloads in parallel thanks to our PowerVM...
2 months ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted

Change view e permissione for role "VIEWER"

We operate as an ICP for several of our Power Systems client. As we explore the different cloud users' roles in PowerVC, we realize the Viewer user role is the one that fits as the most except for one thing. It is missing the 'resource usage' view...
2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Support vHMC on Openshift Virtualisation

Hi, The vHMC supports VMware and KVM. Where customers have an on-premises x86 based openshift environment it would be good to run the vHMC on Openshift Virtualisation. Our use case is that we are planning to migrate off VMware to Openshift Virtual...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Provide option to bind SNMP agent to the Boot IP of the system/node.

If the SNMP service uses a dynamically assigned virtual IP, the reported data could be related to multiple systems/nodes instead of a single unique system/node because the virtual IP may be associated with multiple systems/nodes.
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Feature: disable "case-insensitivity" HMC-username for ldap user

Unfortunately, with the HMC it depends on the upper and lower case of the user name by login (via GUI and SSH). Often the maintenance of the username in the LDAP is not completely uniform. e.g. old user: -user132-Admin1. new user : -user132-admin1
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC GUI Darkmode

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2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Remove ability to set 0777 permissions

I cannot think of a situation where this is needed, and I frequently come across this being set out of ignorance and laziness.
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Make the system number static for multiple systems connected to HMCs

We have many LPARs which our many operators need to start console sessions on (monitoring backups, etc.). As such, we use macros to connect to these LPARs. When an HMC is rebooted, the number of the systems often change so the existing macros eith...
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

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