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    Make Python support zoneinfo

    zoneinfo is a package in the standard Python library, but IBM i doesn't implement it. This causes errors when trying to use 3rd party packages. IBM i should implement that package. Here's what my PC gives for zoneinfo: zoneinfo <module 'zoneinf...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Under review

    When is the next upgrade to viosecure expected? Some ideas for inclusion for CIS compliance...

    Is an upgrade to viosecure planned? What new items will be included? Our CIS compliance fails to pass the AIX benchmark, but we've not found a VIOs benchmark. Will some new password parameters from CIS 3.1.2.* be added to VIOs, such as: mindigit, ...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Use syslog service on VIO to send syslog into to syslog-ng splunk server

    In talking with our Premium Proactive Support Team Lead Kellie Kronenberger she encouraged us to submit what our security team is seeking to implement via syslog as regards certain VIO servers in our environment. What our security team wants to ha...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Planned for future release

    VIOS syslog configuration for splunk

    We will move into Service Now as a replacement from existing solution. Splunk is used by the Service Now solution. To create incidents for VIOs I need syslog data sent to splunk.
    about 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

    NGINX on IBMi baisc authentication support for system profiles

    IBM Apache HTTP server supports PasswdFile %%SYSTEM%% for basic authentication. Would be great if Nginx on IBMi basic authentication also had support this
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

    In powerVM,the transmit speed of the virtual ethernet adapter is too low ,which is usting the 10GB physical adapter

    Dear IBM， we encounter a performance issue in VIOS and VIOC.we found we have nothing to do to improve the virtual network adapter transmit speed,based on the 10GB physical adapter.BUT in our datacenter ,there is 140+ 780 &880 facing the same i...
    about 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    VIOS 3.1 VIOC iSCSI rootvg and datavg

    Following a request from a customer about VIOS 3.1 and iSCSI support.https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/9223-22H/p9hb1/p9hb1_vios_concepts_iscsi.htmThis webpage is confusing when "limitations" paragraph is read:--Currently, the iSCSI disk...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    chdef should be able to set queue_depth defaults for iscsi non-mpio disks.

    We use ISCSI disks and do not have multi path storage available to us, so we would need to set the queue_depth for all newly created iscsi disks. However, we have to use chdev to accomplish this manually for each disk instead of just setting the d...
    7 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Update PASE equivalent AIX TL level

    PASE in IBM i7.2 is based on AIX 7.1 TL1 and PASE in IBM i7.3 is based on AIX 7.1 TL3 neither of which are supported releases of AIX anymore. It would be very helpful to have PASE updated to a current TL (Technology Level) equivalency at least as ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

    Allow naming threading resources from PASE for debugging purposes

    Being able to name pthread threads, mutexes, locks, and other multi-threading resources was added to the ILE in IBM i 7.1. Thread naming is a popular non-POSIX extension to pthread, but other pthread objects being nameable is an IBM i-specific cha...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Future consideration

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