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    add CLI option to GUI-feature : "Schedule-management" jobs

    setting up "Schedule-management" jobs is currently a GUI-only feature. (V11R1M1111) add a CLI functionality to this feature. and a clear logging/messaging for active or expired schedule jobs.
    3 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add Group-Tags in dynamic inventory in powervm_inventory

    Hello, Grouptags are a cool feature in the HMC GUI. Unfortunately, they are no longer available via the CLI. -> https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-554 It would be great to have this feature in the dynamic HMC Ansible inventory ...
    about 7 hours ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add support for signed certificate installation for PowerVC Appliance

    PowerVC customers need to provide a signed certificate for accessing PowerVC UI, PowerVC Appliance does not provide a feature to import the customer signed certificates This can be manually circumvented by engaging support to PESH to install, howe...
    8 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Fixentral Downloads of Machine Code updates are limited to 25 per day, Automate request to download beyond the stated limit

    As an outsourcing provider managing numerous customers and hundreds of LPARs, we frequently encounter challenges due to the current restriction of 25 machine code downloads per day.This limitation significantly impacts our ability to perform essen...
    3 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 34 Under review

    Update QUSRWRK Subsystem to give customer the ability to assign an SSL Only Prestart Job Program (QZDASSINIT) & Remove the Non-SSL Only Prestart Job program (QZDASOINIT)

    Right now, certain interactions with Web Service Servers attach to the 2 Prestart Job entries for QZDASOINIT (Non-SSL). We do not allow any Non-SSL JDBC/ODBC Connections from outside of the IBM i in our Network. We do not think this current Presta...
    about 1 hour ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

    JES2 $TA commands should be checkpointed so they survive IPLs or JES2 restarts

    JES2 automatic commands ($TA commands) do not survive IPLs or JES2 restarts. Many times, $TA commands are set to execute days into the future. If an IPL occurs before the set execution time, the target of the $TA commands never get executed. $TA c...
    about 5 hours ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

    Performance reports shows write cache overruns when controllers don't have write cache

    when your system is equipped with NVMEs without write cache the Performance Report shows actual a write cache overrun of 99,9%. Since there is no write cache that can overrun it should adress the report with "N/A", 'cause the 99,9% indicate a fail...
    about 11 hours ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 0 Submitted

    Add a toggle on the HMC Partitions > Usage > Processor usage panel to omit Idle cpu cycles (like on the Perf. Capacity Monitoring/PCM Dashboard > Processor usage HMC display).

    Despite the technical explanation that the Partitions usage display reflects hypervisor dispatch time, which includes idle time whenever a partition is scheduled on a core, even if the OS is not doing productive work, no one cares to be flagged fo...
    about 23 hours ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Enhance %CHAR to prevent full zero-suppression

    Today there is no way to generate a result when less than 1.00 that includes that first leading zero. As in '0.53'. The result is always '.53'. See code below (sorry I can seem to get embedded line-feeds to appear in this RFE): dcl-s sales Packed(...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Add make, model, serial number to subscriptions tab

    Under "Inventory" -> "Subscription", add the make, model, and serial number to the "Subscription Details". As it is today, we have 6 machines all with "2" cores. From this screen, it is impossible to know which of my 6 machines is expiring soon...
    1 day ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

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