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My ideas: Application Development

Suport internal disk drive encryption on VIOS

Some companies have the requierement that all data stored in disk drives to be encrypted at rest. With the newer NVMe drives with hardware encryption capability and / or the availability of the hdcryptmgr in AIX 7.3, please support the encryption ...
20 days ago in PowerVM VIOS Future consideration

Stop generating alerts each time "stopsrc -s IBM.SoftwareRM" is run

When IBM.SoftwareRM is stopped gracefully it creates a serviceable event that then alerts notification recipients as configured on the HMC. When we installed the recent HIPER ifix for SoftwareRM across our estate it generated a flood of alerts. We...
20 days ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

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...
21 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted

fsck progress tracker

Customer would like to have fsck progress tracker which would be useful to check how far fsck is porgressed. This is mainly helpful for large size FS>
21 days ago in AIX Submitted

Creating User Profiles with SSH-Only Access on IBM i

When designing and creating a user profile on a system like IBM i, it's possible to define with considerable precision which resources and environments will be available to that user. A common need in enterprise environments is to allow access onl...
22 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Enhance Volume Group "AUTO SYNC" feature to bring a temporarily missing (and now available again) disk back to active and start automatic sync

Dear IBM Ideas team, "chvg" command option "-s" offers the posibility to start "automatic synchronization of stale partitions" for mirrored logical volumes.Apparently the code does not provide to bring a missing disk back to active, so the automat...
22 days ago in AIX Submitted

Add downloaded to IMGCLG to PTF status when using QPZRTVFX

When retrieving PTF status it does not say if the PTF has been downloaded to an IMGCLG even though the SNDPTFORD is used to order and download the PTF. When comparing a lits of PTF's that are required for CVE coverage you cannot see if the PTF has...
23 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service Submitted

Alert on failed deletion in DOMADM

If I configure policies on a cluster with an administrative domain that also apply to *USRPRF objects, I can create an account on one system and it will appear on the others. However, if the account contains objects, for example, and they are not ...
23 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

long name CADMRE

The administrative domain allows you to replicate various types of objects and configurations across the different members of the cluster. Among these types, you can also specify environment variables, which often have names longer than 10 charact...
23 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

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...
23 days ago in IBM i / Networking Under review

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