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Have a P05 tier level system in every new initial Power system rollout.

I understand wanting to get high end systems as they might be the first people to need the new horsepower of a new Power system. However these same people may not be allowed to go to a new Power System until that model has been certified by their ...
1 day ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted

Automatic Management of TLS Certificates

Since the validity period of SSL/TLS certificates will be reduced from the current 398 days to 47 days starting in March 2029, managing certificates manually will become very difficult due to the significantly shortened validity.Therefore, a servi...
3 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
3 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

New iNavigator - Printer Output - Heritage iNavigator vs New iNavigator - ASCII download of Spooled file

End users would like to see an ASCII option in download of spooled files from within new iNavigator
4 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Enhance QCAPCMD CL Syntax Checking to Report position of detected syntax error

The QCAPCMD API can be used to syntax Cl commands or run them. When syntax checking, the API logs error messages in the joblog, and also returns a "Command failed" type messages to the exception/error structure. As we move to non-SEU interfaces to...
8 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Add an HTTP status code for SQL not found

When deploying a REST web service based on SQL queries, it is possible to specify an HTTP status code for success (200 by default) and another for error (500 by default). However, when reading datas by an SQL select and a WHERE clause (e.g., sele...
9 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

Please add option to nfs client to let the server manage the group info / equivalent to -g or --manage-gids

Dear Sir or Madam, With AIX as client to mount NFS Shares users are not able to access data which are shared via NFS. In my case users have more than 16 groups they belong to and need to access their files. Groups can not be eliminated, unfortunat...
9 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNav

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. As an example, Job name contains QBAT, QINT I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNavigator
9 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Provide a command-line utility to modify AIX's ldap.cfg file

If there were a command-line utility (similar to the 'chsec' command) that could be used to modify ldap.cfg, this will: 1) prevent syntax errors by checking the modifications you are attempting to make 2) allow for modification of the file by a cu...
9 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Allow CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE to set the correct source info in the resulting table

When we create a table using CREATE TABLE to create a new table, the object description of the resulting table contains the source information for the source member used by RUNSQLSTM to create the table. When we use CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE to repl...
11 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted