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    Enable fc_mappings feature support in VMRM to be able to manage Migration between physical servers in Hostgroup which have multiple paths to disk

    Everybody deploying VMRM can benefit from it. In fact this is a product limitation for VMRM as the LPM SRR feature directly launched from HMC works properly while VMRM fails to manage this case. This prevents VMRM form managing properly the autom...
    almost 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 4 Planned for future release

    We request that the System Location field be queryable from the HMC command line, similar to other fields.

    In the HMC GUI, if you navigate to System Resources, then Systems, and finally System Settings, you will find fields labeled "System Location" and "Description." These fields allow for free-form text entry. Would like the ability to query these fi...
    12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Qualified data structures in CLLE

    When defining a data structure in CLLE with DCL STG(*DEFINED), allow subfields to be defined as qualified in a similar way to RPG. e.g. DCL &STRUCT *CHAR(100) DCL VAR(&SUBFIELD) TYPE(*CHAR) STG(*DEFINED) + LEN(2) DEFVAR(&STRUCT 1) QUAL...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Planned for future release

    Enhance PHA Startup Policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy"

    Today the PowerHA Starup policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy" is hard coded to use the CPU load only.There should be the same list of options as for Resource Group Fallover policy "Fallover Using Dynamic Node Priority".
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Port native boost libraries ot IBM i for xgboost

    I cannot install xgboost (https://pypi.org/project/xgboost/) `pip3 install xgboost` because the native boost libraries have not been ported.This is an extract of the error message (which is attached): XGBoostLibraryNotFound: Cannot find XGBoost Li...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Planned for future release

    Add check in diagcloudconn command for any new opening needed

    Since HMC is locked down and not even allow for nc command (for checking of firewall port openings) one has to rely on the diagcloudconn command. This command does not check the new demand for EP2.0 functionality, 59ee3f51-cc76-4da4-9390-fac27d6a6...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    viosupgrade force/yes option

    viosupgrade command helps to upgrade VIOS 3.1 to 4.1. If viosupgrade finds some outdated filesets which are possibly not supported on VIOS 4.1, it stops and waits for user's confirmation. In an automated process it means that a user should confirm...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

    Managed System Uptime or reboot time - from CLI

    I would like a way to use a command line command from the HMC to get into the ASMI and get the last Current Operating State for all managed systems we own. This will be used to know when all of our managed systems have been last rebooted, thus upg...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    HMC V9 Partitions table view to include column for IPL Source

    On our previous version of the HMC firmware V7790 the display of LPARs on a server included a column for the IPL Source. After upgrading to new HMCs running V9 firmware to manage our POWER9 servers, the Partitions display (table view) no longer in...
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Planned for future release

    HMC GUI, LPM, Validate/Migrate, drop-down box to select frame

    HMC GUI, LPM, Validate/Migrate, drop-down box to select frame This drop-down box has never been sorted. I have many frames so I'm always searching my frames in the list. Could you please sort this list ? This option is part of your development too...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

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