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Web Serving

Add the option to log the deletion of MTIs.

Recently I discovered that next to a plan being removed from the Plan Cache, there is another reason why an MTI can be deleted. There is a connection between a MTIs and a Plans in Plan Cache. so when a Plan is removed/pruned from the Plan Cache th...
11 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 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

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...
19 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Allow calculated values for CONST and INZ

Currently, only hard-coded values ​​are allowed when initializing a variable or constant. dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(2147483648) ; dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(x'80000000') ; or dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SENT uns(10) inz(2147483648) const ; dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SE...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Not under consideration

Modify process's credentials include primary group and secondary groups

I heard that process’s credentials include only the primary group by default, and secondary groups are not automatically applied. I want to design change because weblogic (web server) process's credentials should include the primary group and subg...
20 days ago in AIX 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

PowerVC should fully support Policy-based HA

A lot of IBM flashsystems are now supporting policy-based high availability (PBHA). And a lot of clients are eager to start using it.To my knowledge, IBM PowerVC still does not support PBHA. It also isn't in the announcement for PowerVC 2.3.2 (the...
5 months ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Add options to indicate the trace output file and options for HTTP functions

Calling axiscAxisStartTrace("/tmp/axis.log":*NULL) followed by QSYS2.HTTP_GET or QSYS2.HTTP_POST via embedded SQL does not work when the http functions run in the default activation group but the service program for the axiscAxisStartTrace() runs ...
13 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Create serviceable events support for all Power Systems not only Power 11

ich beziehe mich auf die kürzlich veröffentlichte Funktion zur Erstellung von Service-Cases direkt über das HMC-Interface. Diese Neuerung ist ein hervorragender Schritt, um die Fehlerbehebungszeiten zu verkürzen und den Prozess der Datensammlung z...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

enable interactive user and password authentication on sftp client

It would be useful to have the same possibility that is present on all other Windows and Linux systems.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Networking Submitted

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