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HMC automated installation

It's possible to have option for fully automated installation physical HMC and virtual HMC ? This is time consuming in case IBM support request as part of solution reinstallation of HMC code and restore configuration from backup. It will simplify ...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Add Inherit Rules to IFS journalling

Today when you set up journalling for the IFS the STRJRN command allows you to filter the objects that are to be journalled, however this is a one off request and the inherit rules are not able to be set to allow future filtering of the objects jo...
3 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

HMC should work as ntp server for eBMC ntp clients

As Pete Heyrman documented: The enterprise baseboard management controller (eBMC) was introduced in Power10 and provides similar system management functionality as the FSP. With respect to time, the eBMC time-of-day clock cannot be synced with the...
10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

Option to set "correct" time when cold starting partition

This idea is especially for IBMi partitions, but maybe other platforms have similar requirements. There are ibmi partitions, for example -cold stand-by / DR purposes or -that are started from resp. created by a flash copy operation (starting the l...
29 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

Capacity/Performance Management

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

Allow %PROC BiF in the ON-EXIT

Allow the %PROC built in function to be used in the ON-EXIT group. That way if the subprocedure errors I can return the name of the subprocedure to whatever called it.
9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

add extra detail to the view qsys2.AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART_INFO

for the AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART_INFO view please add a column for the number of records in the data mart file.
21 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

PowerVC add support for mkvolume in place of mkvdisk

mkvdisk does not fully support iogroup placement ibm.com mkvolume Use the mkvolume command to create an empty volume from existing storage pools. You can use this command for high availability configurations that include HyperSwap, but it can also...
3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

alias be registerd in the niminfo file

To use IBM DB2, we need to configure the /etc/hosts file as follows:x.x.x.x nimmaster.ss.local nimmasterDue to this configuration, when registering the NIM client, it gets registered as nimmaster.ss.local instead of nimmaster, which results in the...
3 months ago in AIX 3 Under review