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Suport internal disk drive encryption on VIOS

Some companies have the requierement that all data stored in disk drives to be encrypted at rest. With the newer NVMe drives with hardware encryption capability and / or the availability of the hdcryptmgr in AIX 7.3, please support the encryption ...
20 days ago in PowerVM VIOS Future consideration

Enable block nesting in Cobol source members (OPM as well as ILE)

Ctrl-Shift-O (Show Block Nesting) and Ctrl-Shift-M (jump the cursor to the beginning or end of a code block) are very useful shortcuts when it comes to editing block statements (e.g. an IF/ELSE block) within RPG. Both shortcuts however do not work...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) Future consideration

ACS Run SQL Scripts - Move Tab to New Window

Sometimes I will have 2+ tabs open in a single Run SQL Scripts window, but then have a need to pull one out into its own window. Currently this is a manual process - Open a new window, open the desired SQL script or copy/paste the original tab's c...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

RSEAPI - Have the host in the APis response

Hello,In RSEAPIs, you can connect to a host partition.Would it be possible to have at the start of jsons in response to operations the host on which the action took place :{"host": "localhost", ....} or {"host": "MyHost", ....}Depending on the hos...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Web Serving Future consideration

Add OVRSCOPE to OVERRIDE_INFO

Please add the Override Scope, parameter OVRSCOPE in most OVRxxx commands, as a column to the results returned by the Override Information View, OVERRIDE_INFO. I find it surprising that this was missed from the specifications as most of us who nee...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

DISPLAY_JOURNAL and excluded access objects

DISPLAY_JOURNAL fails when I choose to use *ALLFILE for OBJECT_NAME if it attempts to display the journal details for a file I do not have access to view. Either make DISPLAY_JOURNAL always auto skip the process for files user has not access and r...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Create serviceable events support for all Power Systems not only Power 11

ich beziehe mich auf die kürzlich veröffentlichte Funktion zur Erstellung von Service-Cases direkt über das HMC-Interface. Diese Neuerung ist ein hervorragender Schritt, um die Fehlerbehebungszeiten zu verkürzen und den Prozess der Datensammlung z...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

Add mTLS authentication to IWS

It is currently possible to configure Apache to run mTLS. However, the Apache instance is becoming less and less useful with IWS, and we want to be able to implement mTLS directly within the IWS Java instance.
2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving Future consideration

RSEAPI - Force session usage

Hello, APIs can be used either with basic auth or by opening a session using a token. Some APIs, such as those that return session information, can only be called with a token. The setting to limit usage, `POST /api/v1/admin/settings`, only applie...
2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving Future consideration

In RUN SQL Scripts enable common font resizing methods

Although Run SQL Scripts does support font resizing, the controls are difficult to access quickly and do not align with common or expected methods for changing font size. This slows me down, particularly when sharing my screen during conference ca...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

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