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    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...
    22 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 19 Submitted

    LVM mirroring across VGs (enables eg. online FS migration from one vg to another)

    LVM is great and has been for decades. Many LVM manipulations can be done online without unmounting filesystems or stopping the applications, which is an advantage compared to other OS's. There are, however, still a few things that require to stop...
    about 14 hours ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Add TRUNCNBR(*EXPR) to the RPG IV CTL-OPT keyword to trunction results in assignments

    When using legacy MOVE opcodes to copy one numeric variable to another, if Factor 2 contains a longer variable than the result and Factor 2's value actual fits into the Result field's variable, it does the assignment as expected. If Factor 2 conta...
    about 6 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Add configurable continuation start column (left margin) for fully free-form RPG (**FREE)

    RPG IV currently supports two “free format” models: Hybrid free format (traditional RPG IV), where a statement is considered free format when it begins in column 8 or later. Fully free format using **FREE in column 1, where all source lines are fr...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    PowerVC topology evaluates actual mapping not powervc known details

    PowerVC topology provides great vizualization of PowerVC expected zoning path to storage for a given vm. The map provided is based on PowerVC expected information as saved in it's internal databases. ideally there would be an option to query the b...
    1 day ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    VMRM DR - Fail "verify" when rehearsal LPAR sees extra disks causing move failure

    Please add checking for the correct number of disks to be part of either the "discover" or "verify" process (or both) since having the correct number of disks is a required part of the "move" process. When the incorrect number of flashcopy disks a...
    1 day ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v9.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

    IBM i: Qualys is dinging us for OpenSSH ssh Function Vulnerability (CVE-2025-61984) Opened up a case with IBM . The reply to the case was: This vulnerability was discovered fairly recently and has low (3.6 base) score on the X-Force Exchange site....
    2 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    PowerVC should fully support Policy-based HA

    A lot of IBM flashsystems are now supporting policy-based high availability (PBHA). And a lot of clients are eager to start using it.To my knowledge, IBM PowerVC still does not support PBHA. It also isn't in the announcement for PowerVC 2.3.2 (the...
    about 2 months ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

    Generate qualified data structures for *LOB sql data types

    When generating data structures for BLOB & CLOB SQL data types, use a qualified data structure instead of using the variable name with _LEN and _DATA appended. For example, Currently, for this field definition, DCL-S BLOBFIELD SQLTYPE(CLOB:160...
    12 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Enable multiple OUs on CSRs coming from the HMC

    Most PKIs are structured hierarchially with more than one OU, in our case it is not possible to sign a Certificate Request with only one OU via our internal PKI. Also: Self signed certificates will increasingly be banned in the future - which is a...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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