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BRMS

Enable multiple OUs on CSRs coming from the HMC

Most PKIs are structured hierarchially with more than one OU, in our case it is not possible to sign a Certificate Request with only one OU via our internal PKI. Also: Self signed certificates will increasingly be banned in the future - which is a...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

PowerVC should fully support Policy-based HA

A lot of IBM flashsystems are now supporting policy-based high availability (PBHA). And a lot of clients are eager to start using it.To my knowledge, IBM PowerVC still does not support PBHA. It also isn't in the announcement for PowerVC 2.3.2 (the...
5 months ago in PowerVC Future consideration

enable interactive user and password authentication on sftp client

It would be useful to have the same possibility that is present on all other Windows and Linux systems.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Networking Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

SMTP journal

It would be important to have a journal available for mail servers configured using the SMTP framework as well, one that logs all email sending activities. This is particularly important when dealing with auditors who request old logs, in which ca...
17 days ago in IBM i / Networking Submitted

RSEAPI - Complete the GET admin/session response to get a proper audit

Hello, This request is a follow-up to the request at https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4851. It still concerns the GET operation /api/v1/admin/sessions To enable this operation to serve as an audit and monitor the use of RSE API's, would it be po...
17 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

RSEAPI - Add a level of detail to the audit service's response

Hello,In the service, GET /api/v1/admin/sessions, which allows us to see the number of sessions per profile; we receive a JSON feed in response of the following type :{"totalSessions": 4,"sessions": [{"userid": "DT","sessionCount": 4}]} Is it poss...
17 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Create %PROGNAME built in function

We have the RPG built in function %PROC to return the name of the current procedure, I think it is time that we have the same for the name of the current program. By all means we can get this from the program status data structure, it would just b...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

Improve message of CPF5222 on CHGPWD

When changing a password upon expiration or during CHGPWD execution, if a blank or non-alphabetic character is entered in the current/new password field, the message CPF5222 'Name is not correct' is displayed. However, this message does not clearl...
5 months ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

Add a date created field or data added field to the WRKIMGCLG ouput

When looking at the content of a IMGCLG you cannot see any reference to the date the IMGCLGE was added or what the content is. To review the content you have to Load the IMGCLG to a device and then work through each entry to identify what the cont...
15 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted