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Add Native SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) Single Sign-On Support to IBM HMC

Many enterprise customers are moving away from LDAP- and AD-based authentication and standardizing on centralized identity providers and Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions such as Microsoft Entra ID, Ping Identity, Okta, and IBM Verify. Today, HMC aut...
about 7 hours ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

AI-Powered Business Rule Change Simulation and Golden-Behavior Validation for IBM i Applications

I propose adding an AI-Powered Business Rule Change Simulation and Golden-Behavior Validation capability for IBM i applications to help development teams verify that application changes preserve intended business behavior while enabling controlled...
about 17 hours ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Enhance the nvmesed tool to query and display the TryLimit value for each PIN

Right now there is no possibility to know how many retries are left to enter successfully a certain PIN (either user, admin or SID PIN) to unlock a NVMe SED drive. However, this information is available on the drive itself and could get queried an...
about 18 hours ago in AIX Submitted

Problem when we try delete directory from EVS HITACHI NFS

Case number TS022926480 We are experiencing delays and blocking behavior when removing directories located on an NFS-mounted filesystem. To investigate the issue, we performed a controlled test on server nim71. A test file was created and kept ope...
1 day ago in AIX Submitted

Enable the injection of IBM i License Keys from a PowerVC repository. The Repository should know M/T & S/N and IBM i Version to be able to inject correct keys.

1) IBM has (unfortunately) moved to term-based licensing for IBM i.2) When additional cores, or BR2, or (future product) core licenses are ordered, keys only are good until the EARLIEST expiry date. (e.g. Order 2 cores on 1/Jan and 2 cores on 1/Ju...
1 day ago in PowerVC Submitted

monitor the status of the qinter subsystem devd table before it fills up and crashes by reporting the CPI146F.

Deleting unused devds may not result in the subsystem table being reclaimed; this is known but is not treated as an error; it simply is.I believe it is necessary to know how busy this table is in order to plan a restart of the subsystem before the...
1 day ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

Working inside the UI for log collections and management, prepare for easy Ansible workflows/playbooks as well.

Working inside the UI for log collections and management like the Flashsystems would be much faster then going cli using powervc-commands to run the diag part and then upload to share and then upload to IBM. If PowerVC would support this then it c...
2 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

Enhance the UI to allow creation / modification of PowerVC users

Working inside the UI for user management like the Flashsystems would be much faster then going cli using powervc-wrapper commands. This would be even better now that we are moving towards the closed appliance.
2 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

allow migration of IBM i loadsource without downtime

You can easily migrate IBM i LPARs from one Power Server onto another one without downtime currently. You can also add/remove disks to either system or independed ASPs without any downtime. But once it comes to loadsource you need to IPL system do...
3 days ago in IBM i / Storage Submitted

Re-introduce the "No Conversion" file type option in ACS Data Transfer (Feature parity with IBM i Access for Windows).

Business Need: Our accounting department relies on generating fixed-width text files for banking transactions (e.g.,tax transfers). These bank files have strict formatting requirements: they must maintain fixed lengths, contain absolutely no delim...
7 days ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

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