Re: HMC Partition sort order

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of the issues I see is the deployments are so different. Sure guys 
like my friend the 'Iron Monger' deploy a lot of IBM i, and heck I have 
99 IBM i partitions at the moment, the VAST majority of IBM i shops have 
partition counts that don't exceed one hand.

Those AIX guys though sometimes deploy partitions in three digits and 
more. Clearly the issues with that type of deployment are well different 
than the small i shop.

One example. Those 1000 partitions the AIX guys deploy? Likely the same 
version and TL level, same disk, memory, cpu, same network VLAN etc for 
every single one. Or at least in large groups.  Of my 99 IBM i 
partitions over 60 different VLANs. Seven different O/S levels and 
probably 20 different TR levels. Many different CPU and memory 
allocations and the only ones with the same disk are those at the 
minimum deployment. And they were deployed over years not as a large 
group. We also seem to restart things much less frequently than our AIX 
brethren and our partitions live longer, often 'forever'.

IBM i is used differently by most shops than is AIX, quite differently. 
And that is reflected in development work on the HMC.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/6/2020 11:59 AM, Holger Scherer wrote:
> As long as we "dying" IBM i enthusiasts do behave loud, they cannot overhear us.
> Let's create some RFE for this, the HMC interface is currently my
> beloved battlefield.
>
> -h
>
>
> > Am 06.01.2020 um 17:40 schrieb <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > I too would like the customization we do to the interface to be persistent
> > by user profile.  We used to have something near that with the customized
> > interface but that all went away with the new design.
> >
> > I also prefer Partition ID number ordering.
> >
> > I am not holding my breath that any design changes for the HMC will come
> > through that someone outside of the AIX environment might like.  The
> > designers and developers all believe IBM i dead, and wish it would go away.
>