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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...
    about 13 hours ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Add documentation for changing the "drvlanmap" and "drvswitchmap"

    Please update the VM Recovery Manager documentation to include how to change the "drvlanmap" and "drvswitchmap" parameters from the command line. The actual commands are misleading because they specify changing the "vlanmap" and "vswitchmap", but,...
    1 day ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Purestorage support in VMRM DR

    Need PureStorage support to implement VM Recovery Manager in our environment.
    1 day ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Provide a tool Admins can use to review PTF cover letters for Special and Activation Instructions

    Currently there is no tool available to assist Admins when reviewing PTF cover letters prior to loading and installing PTF's. This would be helpful as there are thousands of PTF's in a typical deployment. It is impossible to review each cover lett...
    2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Submitted

    VMRDR needs to handle SSH login security banners displayed by a storage_agent

    When running a discover on a workgroup, if the remote storage_agent (like a FS9200) has a security login banner enabled, VMRDR is reading that banner as actual input to be parsed instead of ignoring it and only reading the true data. When connecti...
    5 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Warn customers before Defective PTFs are applied

    Customers often download CUMEs or HIPERs well before they plan to apply them. During the interim, one or more PTFs may be marked defective, but the system allows the PTFs to be applied without warning customers. The following scenario is a possibl...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

    VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
    over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Have possibility to download PTFs via https

    Hello, in our company we are forbidden to use java web start as it was marked as vulnerability and FTP connection is being slowly banned out as well. Would there be option (same as for fixes for other IBM products like storage etc) to use https fo...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Size decrease when downloading PTFs Groups

    Hello, My idea is simple. When downloading PTF group images, we would have option to upload some kind of PTF output file (which will tell fix central which PTFs are already on IBM i partition) which will be than processed on fix central and make d...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    QMGTOOLS Option to Compare/Order Cross Reference PTFs Before an OS Upgrade

    In QMGTOOLS option 24, PTF menu, can IBM add an option to compare/order cross-reference PTFs when planning for an OS upgrade, like from 7.4 to 7.5?
    8 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

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