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Status Future consideration
Workspace Hardware Management Console
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 7, 2018

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"Change Licensed Internal Code" needs to verify that a given release is supported on the target system

Per FixCentral, AL710 and AL730 are the only two firmware releases for an 8233-E8B (and level 159 is the "end of the line" for release AL730). However, "Change Licensed Internal Code for the Current Release" reports that "There is a new upgrade release available at the repository."

Rather than simply checking for newer levels of firmware, the HMC should also verify whether any newer levels are in fact supported on the target system. The message an end user ultimately receives should be something along the lines of either "you are already at the latest supported firmware for this system, no action is required on your part" or "you are currently at level X, the latest
level supported by this system is Y" (even if there's a Z available).

See Case number TS001566729 for more details.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 8, 2018

    Hello. This is an item we have discussed in the past and over a few iterations, the latest iteration of this puts all system support validation on the firmware side. It's rare but not unheard of for offering management to add support for a system to a firmware stream after being released. And if we control the blocks in the HMC itself, it would prevent users from installing that firmware as updating an HMC is much more rare than updating firmware. I'll have a discussion with some of the server-side engineering and release teams to see if we can meet a little closer in the middle.

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