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    Allow Security Events from non-UI Agent sources

    Provides a single point of information for security events
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

    Provide MFA support for IBM Storage via PowerSC MFA

    Useful because the customer does not need another MFA solution for his Power Systems and IBM Storage
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

    Allow value selection on command prompting

    When prompting on a command, it might show a number of well known values, or present a list from a choice program, however the value must always be typed in again. It would be easier if the option was offered to select one of these values by posit...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 4 Not under consideration

    Enhancements to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms command

    Requesting the folloing additional functionaluty to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms search: - Please provide an option to ignore NFS Filesystems - Option to list the filesystems to scan - Option to ingore a list of filesystems in the scan
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

    CL Command to output .xlsx Excel Spreadsheet

    Create a CL command to output an .xlsx Excel spreadsheet. Use Case: We are currently using a third party app that outputs to Excel but it's only in .XLS format. That company is barely hanging in and no longer offers any upgrades. Our business depe...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 4 Not under consideration

    New IMPORT parameter on DCLF command

    Add new IMPORT parameter to the DCLF (Declare File) CL command so the fields would be initialized with an exported Data Structure from a Service Program or another Module Rules and Validations:-The new IMPORT parm would require a name up to 14 cha...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 3 Not under consideration

    Deliver a Generate List of Menu Options API

    Standard (legacy?) IBM i menu object create a *MSGF that contains the Menu options as a MSGID entry. These menu options can be retrieved using the QMHRTVM easily.However our UIM-based IBM menus have no such equivalent and therefore present a probl...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 8 Not under consideration

    Allow CL to Pass Strings to RPG OPTIONS(*STRING) Parameters

    Please allow the CALLPRC command to pass a string to an RPG procedure parameter that is defined as POINTER OPTIONS(*STRING). Use Case: Currently, I still have to pass a pointer to such a parameter: dcl &p_code *ptr | chgvar &code 'AAT990' ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Not under consideration

    Add CIS (benchmark) compliance profile for IBMi

    In version 2.0.0.2 of PowerSC there is a "IBMi best practices" profile only for IBMi agents. For our VIOS/AIX agents we use the CIS profile and we want to be able to use a CIS profile for IBMi agents also.Provide a CIS compliance profile, please.
    over 3 years ago in PowerSC 3 Future consideration

    Provide a PARSE_CL_STMT SQL UDTF that returns parms and values

    It would be great to have a way to check CL command options similar to how we do today with PARSE_STATEMENT for SQL statements.The ideal candidate would return the parameters (kwd names) and the value the user passed to those parameter in a table ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 5 Future consideration

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