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    Hostname variable to be used when copying configuration items in the GUI

    Currently if you copy configuration items that include a report detail (e.g Malware configuration) the Scan report title will include the source system name as text. This should populate as the correct host name on each target for the copy, otherw...
    4 days ago in PowerSC 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 ...
    19 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    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...
    over 1 year 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

    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)
    10 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
    9 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

    Notifications and Alerting

    Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Better Visibility/Logging

    It would be a great help to provide logs to allow end users the ability to triage issues.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

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