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    SMTP via Google relay

    Google recently issued this: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en#zippy= And I am wondering what effect, if any, this will have on being able to email from the IBM i via google email relay using IBM's SMTP. We send hundreds of ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Be sure a CPU a device is attached to is present in the LPAR

    When a device is attached to a LPAR, there is no guarantee that the CPU this device is attached to will be part of the LPAR. This leads to device with no specific numa node, confusing script managing irqbalancing like the Mellanox one and probably...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    UAK Longer validated period

    We want to have UAK validated period extended to 1 year at least. Currently implemented period of 180 days is considered too short. When system attention lamp turns on at UAK expiration, customers are forced to take reactive actions to decide if a...
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM 2 Not under consideration

    Decrease name resolution performance when losing a DNS

    On our Power System, we have 3 DNS in the option 12 of cfgtcp. The problem is when I lose a DNS (maintenance, crash, ...) the resolution performance decrease. We have an application (Wish) that do a name resolution of the computer from where the s...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Ability to send notification if IDS is disabled

    We recently enabled IDS on our Power 9 iSeries. Is there a way a notification could be added if a threat inside your network disabled IDS (as another layer of protection) so that those on the IDS notification alert list would be alerted to this ac...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Future consideration

    Make the SYSCMD CALL function from an FTP script work the same as a CALL command in a batch job for a limited capability user

    Make the SYSCMD CALL function from an FTP script work the same as a CALL command in a batch job for a limited capability user. Use Case: EDI - FTP to customers is causing issues with automotive releases and ASNs. Very Important this is fixed.
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

    Shared Ethernet Adapter Linux effects

    Based on Steven Knudson TechDoc "Ethernet on POWER: Physical, Shared, Virtual" Document ID: PRS5353 with SLES11 and my own virtual ethernet performance tests with SLES12 it is not possible to hit > 23Gb/sec. (SLES12 --> hypervisor --> SLE...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Be sure a CPU a device is attached to is present in the LPAR

    When a device is attached to a LPAR, there is no guarantee that the CPU this device is attached to will be part of the LPAR. This leads to device with no specific numa node, confusing script managing irqbalancing like the Mellanox one and probably...
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Creating virtual ports as a way to bypass physical port level validation

    Live Partition Mobility for NPIV clients requires that both (active and inactive) WWPNs for each virtual Fibre Channel adapter must have been zoned to the exact same storage port WWN on the switch/SAN and must have been defined to the storage arra...
    about 7 years ago in PowerVM 0 Not under consideration

    need interface similar to DSPSSTUSR for SST IP addresses

    Need to provide an easy interface to the view the TCP/IP addresses and resource names that are used in SST for LAN console and network image catalog setup.The interface would be similar to the DSPSSTUSR command. Use Case: there are TCP/IP addresse...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 7 Not under consideration

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