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Hardware Management Console

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    Simplify HMC update

    Please make HMC update similar to Firmware update.Ability to download directly from IBM/local and update to the latest in same level or upgrade to next level.something simple like chrome browser update.
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Allow sizing and Left, Right or Center Justification of Column view with v9 HMC GUI

    GUI Column Display of LPAR attributes needs better custom sizing and descriptions of some information needs to be improved for user readability. For example some columns such as LPAR memory might only require a few characters to display, but use m...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Add the ability to split out the 5250 firewall rule so that non-secure ports can be disabled or blocked while allowing the secure connection through.

    We had a request from the ISERIES Team to block non-secure 5250 connections. we were not able to satisfy this request due to the restrictions on the HMC Firewall.
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    HMC show Message IDs in all dialogs

    currently creating some documentation / RFE. To show process of work for IBM to reproduce, we copy some dialogs. Some dialogs have a HSCF message ID, others don't.Would be great to include these message IDs in all dialogs so anyone can reproduce t...
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Planned for future release

    updhmc -t ibmwebsite

    For simplification reason it would make sense to have a repository type of "ibmwebsite" for updhmc(updhmc -t {ibmwebsite}as we already have it with updlic -r {ibmwebsite}
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    re-add the ability to edit SR-IOV backing device editing in LPM gui

    In the v9 interface when performing an LPM verfication, you could modify the backing device mappings, such that the % of logical port, which VIO to control that backing device, etc, could all be modified to accomodate the possible differences in b...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Allow restore of full VIOS backup through HMC web interface

    THe HMC allows you to create a full image backup of a virtual I/O server through command line using 'cpviosbk -t full' or from the web interface using menu "Console Management --> Templates and OS images --> VIOS images --> Manage Virtual...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Expand UpgradeLV

    HMC was on V10R1M1020 and we wanted to upgrade it to R2M1030. saveupgdata -r disk failed because of not enough space on UpgradeLV. We have 22 managed systems on one HMC and many users on the HMC. None of the users has anything large in home direct...
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Managed System name on LPAR page

    In earlier versions of HMC with enhanced UI there was a way to find a name of the managed system where the LPAR resides. Either it was shown on the top of the screen (Resources -> All Systems -> System Name -> Partitions -> Partition N...
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Request for giving a report on Power System Uptime from HMC

    It would be good if we have a utility in Power System Management Console in which Power Servers are connected, that will give us the uptime report the IBM Power servers ?
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

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