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Application Development

Add Multiple Result Tabs to Run SQL Scripts

I often need to run multiple queries in different tables to analyze and compare results. For every query I run, the existing results are cleared and the new results are displayed. I would like the results to be retained until closed. I would sugge...
7 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Submitted

Bypass the target port checks for Inactive Live Partition Mobility

bring the feature presented in Live Partition Mobility (LPM): Bypass NPIV target port level validation to AIX, for inactive LPAR at least on a short term basis.
15 days ago in PowerVM Submitted

Automate add or update of Certificate instead of manual process in DCM

A new process is being implemented reducing the number of days a certificate will be valid. Apple, Google and others are already implementing this. https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days In 2 week...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Add support for signed certificate installation for PowerVC Appliance

PowerVC customers need to provide a signed certificate for accessing PowerVC UI, PowerVC Appliance does not provide a feature to import the customer signed certificates This can be manually circumvented by engaging support to PESH to install, howe...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC Submitted

Consolidate target‑level and LUN‑level validation to reduce validation disruption due to fabric limitations

Live Partition Mobility (LPM) validation currently executes separate target‑level and LUN‑level validation paths per default, resulting in multiple Fibre Channel fabric login events per LPM validation. In large NPIV environments, this behavior can...
16 days ago in PowerVM Submitted

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

trim (leading and trailing) blanks from input in HMC search fields

Currently the 'Partitions' or 'Systems' search field filters for an exact match in the HMC Web GUI.As a consequence leading or trailing blanks do matter, but are hard to spot visually. 'LPAR1' works as expected.' LPAR1' or 'LPAR1 ' would not retur...
5 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

GUI "Reports" should also report CLI actions & include workgroup names

The "Reports" section of the GUI should also report command line actions instead of just the GUI actions. If a company primarily uses the CLI for KSYS actions, the GUI reports do them no good. The GUI report also does not include the workgroup nam...
5 days ago in VM Recovery Manager Submitted

RSEAPI - operation DELETE api/v1/admin/sessions

Hello, Is it possible to add the host and token as optional parameters, just like the username?All parameters could be combined.These new parameters would have a default value of *ALL. These additions would allow, for example : removing all connec...
22 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Add the Prestart Job Reuse count to the job data in Collection Services

QSYS2.Active_Job_Info returns the prestart job reuse count. However, to review this you must use DETAILED_INFO => 'ALL' and you can only get a real-time snapshot. I would like this metric added to the Collection Services job data so this can be...
13 days ago in IBM i / Performance Tools Submitted

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