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Integrate AIX software repositories (including Toolbox) with RHEL Satellite for central management of both operating systems.

We use the RHEL satellite (and Foreman) for all Linux hosts, why not integrate also AIX here and then maybe also use the insights software for monitoring and reporting.
3 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted
135 VOTE

Link Aggregation NIC adapter replacement without service interruption

When replacing a NIC that is part of an Ethernet Link Aggregation configuration, it is necessary to temporarily disable the Line description on IBMi OS. As a result, the IP address is deactivated, making a service outage unavoidable.Although Power...
2 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Submitted

SQL service: add functionality to view application definitions

Hello, we have this great table function CERTIFICATE_INFO table function - IBM Documentation we were wondering recently - would it be possible to to have a functionality to retrieve info on Application definitions / Services existing in DCM. Examp...
3 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. For the moment we have CERTIFICATE_INFO table function - IBM Documentation which ...
3 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Printer writer job is unable to recover after a preprocessed spool file is deleted unexpectedly

I observed that our writer job occasionally encounters the CPF6DF5 error after a temporary spool file is deleted in the output queue during preprocessing according to IBM Support. When this error occurs, all subsequent spools entering the queue ar...
6 days ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
4 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

support backing up(backupios command) of VIOS to USB memory stick

The backupios command manual states that only tape and cd are supported. At least there is no mention of USB memory sticks. In many cases, there is a desire to back up the VIOS onto a USB memory stick. Considering the operational convenience, the ...
about 2 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

"enhance" capture lpar as template to actually include all properties of the lpar

Currently, vscsi storage (except for SSP) is omitted during capture. Including all storage from source lpar would make the feature do what it says on the tin.
4 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
13 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted