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    AIX Security reporting tool

    Since CIS Tool latest version (v4.x) dropped support for generating AIX security reports based on CIS AIX 7.x benchmark; There is currently NO tool, which would generate decent HTML security reports from AIX systems. And that is a HUGE gap in secu...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

    Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

    With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 7 Future consideration

    Retain PowerHA Geographic Mirror cluster information when doing image capture and volume clone

    Hello, For some time now (I’m unable to pinpoint exactly when), PowerHA Geographic Mirror no longer retains cluster information when performing an image capture or a volume clone operation. This functionality used to work correctly — for example, ...
    16 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    enhancement with PowerHA Site-failure scenario with Hyperswap design

    It is about IBM i site failure protection with PowerHA + HyperSwap. When the source server and storage both power down, suppose the target server and storage (DS8K) will takeover the iASP asap. But there is a scenario the target LPAR will be hang ...
    2 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    Seperating Access to Profile Editor

    Currently there is one option to give an user rw rights. For all custom profiles or none. We have the need to be more granular. For instance: seperate it by operating system seperte it within an Operating system (by LPAR or hostname)
    12 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

    Add capability of defining subgroups for Compliance page

    For usability in large environments it would behelpfull to be able to create subgroups on the Compliance page. Here an example: Group: SAP - Sub-Group: SAP-Test SAP-QA SAP-Prod
    11 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

    For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

    High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
    about 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

    vdisk_protection_enabled in IBM i PowerHA environments

    This is the corresponding RFE to RFE number 141546 but for IBM i side.Spectrum Virtualize (be it flashsystems or SVC) introduced feature to restrict LUNS from being unmapped or deleted from storage when there was I/O in last XX minutes.This featur...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Future consideration

    Add report overview for Quantum Safe Scanning

    currently in the new version the quantum safe scan option is only able to display results for each system, would be great to have a massive overview for big server farms.
    5 months ago in PowerSC 2 Submitted

    Notifications and Alerting

    Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
    3 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

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