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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

    Restoring individual Authorization Lists.

    When moving one customer from a SAAS LPAR to his own LPAR, you must be restoring ALL user profiles to get all Authorization lists. The SAAS LPAR is running multiple customers with over 1500 user profiles. If you want to move one customer with abou...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration
    309 VOTE

    *ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

    We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

    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

    Extend the SAVxxx and RSTxxx commands to allow an IFS file as the SAVF file.

    The SAV and RST commands allow the value *SAVF for the device parameter, but the save file itself must necessarily refer to a file located in a library. Of course, it’s possible to use the CPYTOSTMF and CPYFRMSTMF commands to achieve the desired r...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

    Allow to create and save to a Tape Image Catalog on remote server

    Please, add support to Tape Image Catalog so we can save on a remote server (probably NFS V4) and allow migrate to the cloud when there is not enough local storage in the ASP. I know we can use a Remote Virtual Optical Image Catalog, but this only...
    20 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 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)
    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

    Enable the usage of non ephemeral/static ports when using ObjectConnect over TCP/IP

    Currently, IBMi ObjectConnect over TCP/IP uses TCP port 9841. Once the connection is established, it attempts to negotiate a data port connection within the ephemeral port range of 5000-65535. This configuration is not practical when a firewall ex...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Future consideration

    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

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