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GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
6 months ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Under review

Removal of 4-Core Limit for IBM-i VMs on the S1022

Description: As a forward-thinking organization leveraging IBM-i on the S1022 server, we are consistently seeking ways to enhance performance, optimize resource utilization, and meet our increasing workload demands. In light of this, we submit the...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 5 Under review

Provide Exit Point support for SSHD Daemon

We would like to utilize the standard IBM exit point program interfaces QIBM_QZDA* to provide control for the SSHD (SSH Daemon) provided with OpenSSH 5733-SC1. This protocol should have the same support available as Telnet, ODBC and FTP protocols ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Under review

AIX community edition for QEMU/KVM

AIX will remain the leading UNIX operating system for mission-critical environments for many years to come. It has performance, security and ease of administration features that make it a very interesting option for new deployments complementing t...
8 months ago in AIX 1 Under review

Rust language that has become an essential language for UNIX based products. Many IBMi & AIX companies should have the ability to compile Rust on IBM i PASE and on AIX.

IBM is distributing the ClamAV open source antivirus as part of the AIX but ClamAV has a new release that is based on Rust (software language). Rust has become an essential language for UNIX based products. So many IBMi & AIX companies should ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Under review

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

Need maintenance mode switch for Power Server at HMC

When doing installation of new Power Server or HW Maintenance or FW Updates etc. it happens very often that the HMC is producing a call home to IBM. This is very true when installing a new power Server and HMC are connected to FSP /eBMC. But these...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Add feature to be able to add mount options to NFS cross mounts

For some our NFS cross mounted filesystems we need to be able to add additional NFS mount options. This is a requirement triggered by SAP. It also should be added to the SAP Smart Assist tools.
almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

Emulex Dirver Support for the Emulex SAN Manager

Support for Congestion Management, Visibility of Transceiver Data and Inventory of all Power Emulex HBAs. Customers can do autonomous Congestions Managment who can help them mitigate Performance Problems. With the Visibility of Transceiver Data th...
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Under review

Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

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