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PowerSC agent to support Openshift cluster security compliance

This would be useful if PowerSC can extend its support and management to the level of the Openshift Containers Security.We understand, it works (manage security comliance) on AIX and Linux on Power on different features including FIM, Comlpiance, ...
about 2 years ago in PowerSC 1 Under review

User interface improvements when configuring FIM

Selecting the right files when configuring auditd or RTC can be a bit challenging and time-consuming at the moment - and we think some minor interface tweaks could make this process easier. 1) 'Freeze' the headings on the table when scrolling - to...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

TNC should indicate the exact subset of ifixes needed for a given TNC Client

When a TNC verify operation is run, TNC creates a report, missingifixes.rpt. But that reports lists the set of ifixes that have direct or indirect relevance to the endpoint.For example, say that a system is vulnerable to a security issue that rela...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Support mapping MFA users to either local groups or LDAP/AD groups

Currently, each user must be added to PowerSC MFA. From a corp security perspective it would be more consistent and simpler to point to group membership to assign profiles and permissions. So instead of adding the 30 indivisual members of group XY...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

I want better IBM i support for PowerSC

About the productI would like PowerSC to not require periodic restarts.If periodic restarts are required, please provide examples of cron settings in the documentation. About the introduction documentWe would like the "Configuring IBM PowerSC MFA ...
almost 3 years ago in PowerSC 4 Planned for future release

Improvement in PowerSC reporting for patch management

We are using PowerSC for AIX patch management. We want to have the following features in the PowerSC GUI to have better reporting: 1. The PowerSC GUI should show in a percentage form - how many patches are currently applied and how many are pendin...
over 2 years ago in PowerSC 2 Under review

SRVAUTE replication administrative domain

When you replicate a user profile in an administrative domain at the moment SRVAUTE are not under replication. This could be a big problem for all applications that are using this os feature. So, at the moment the only way possible to replicate th...
10 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

ENDFLASH to not write changes on VRYOFF

Problem description: We create flash partitions for temporary use and on the ENDFLASH we are just going to do another STRFLASH to refresh the data. No need to keep it. The writing changes to disk on the Vary Off is taking anywhere from 5-20 minute...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 4 Not under consideration

Replicate save status and last save information across nodes in PowerHa Cluster.

In a PowerHA cluster, if I perform a save operation (to a tape drive) in a FlashCopy system that information is not spread among other systems in cluster specially production (main) system. This cause some objects that must be saved before delete ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Not under consideration