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Exit point QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV should include the Netserver file share name

This exit point currently provides a lot of data about file server access, but this one key piece of information is missing (the share name). During security remediation, it would be invaluable to capture the name of the share that is being used, ...
5 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

Display command for a GUI task

The HMC should have the possibility to show the CLI command for a task that is executed over the GUI. For example the start of a VM should return "chsysstate -r lpar .....". Such a functionality is implemented in AIX SMIT using the F6 key. This wo...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

Capacity/Performance Management

HMC should provide the same detail level and functionality like lpar2rrd in point of Capacity and Performance management.
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

User with only (but all) advanced roles assigned should be able to perform LPM (Migrate)

Even if all additional roles at once are assigned to a user the "Migrate" option does not appear on LPARs. This should be the case, because such users have the ability to clone, delete and move VMs and volumes - which is everything a LPM does. Aft...
8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

More detailed user and role management in Power VC (based on Openstack Identity)

More detailed role and user management. In large installations and in environments with high security restrictions, such as banks, it is crucial to very precisely manage user rights and their roles, so I am asking you to expand these functionaliti...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Return previous functionality to manage rw / read-only on virtual media library iso's from the GUI.

HMC users managing the virtual media library from the GUI were impacted when this functionality was removed.
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Configuring IPG to be exclusive for Tape Storage Templates

Most of the Power customers follow the best practice of segregating Disk and Tape traffic onto separate VIOS FC ports. Although PowerVC currently allows for specifying an IPG on Tape storage template (CLI), this IPG can be used by other Storage Te...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

BASH as a SQL service ( SQL scalar function)

Lots of great tooling is available in PASE via bash. It would be appreciated if commands could be executed using a "user defined function" returning a CLOB for the stdout. An implementation can be found here. https://github.com/NielsLiisberg/sql-o...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

make simplified remote restart fully disaster recovery capable

When employing simplified remote restart, one requisite to restart an LPAR on another machine is that all SAN paths and targets (e.g. LUNs) have to be available on target VIO servers. During a disaster recovery scenario, this is not the case; in a...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Enterprise Pools 2.0 optimization of credits

When we ordered our E1080_E980 we purchased credits for that pool. When I designed and configured our first private cloud based on E950s and FS7200 I also added credits to this pool. Since the 2.0 pool worked so well those credits are now impossib...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

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