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Feature Request – Support for Parameter Substitution in RSEAPI_SQLRequest

I would like to suggest an enhancement to the RSEAPI_SQLRequest structure used in the RSE API for SQL execution. Currently, the API only supports static SQL statements via the sqlStatement field, without the ability to bind input or output paramet...
5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Needs more information

PowerVC Server support on AIX

Many AIX and IBMi Power customers would like to use PowerVC to manage their environment. But they do not have strong Linux Skills. Porting the PowerVC server to AIX would allow these customers to purchase and use PowerVC
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

IWS REST Web services based on SQL procedure

In Rest SQL Services from Integrated Web Servicesi want to put an HTTP Status code, an HTTP Header and an error field defined by the SQL procedure as for an RPG program. That is to say, by defining in the procedure an INTEGER type variable for the...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

PowerVC group roles are inherited in projects

In our PowerVC environement we have a different project for each customer/application. We utilise groups to assign roles to users, with the current way that group-role assignments work in PowerVC this requires us to configure the role for each gro...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PVC MFA Code Over mail

Dear Team, At the customer environment, there are currently 17 PVC Applications in use. As part of the ongoing security enhancement plan, we are in the process of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all these applications. As per th...
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

LPAR creation with SVC I/O round robin active

we use the following steps to create LPARs via REST API in PowerVC 2.0.1:1) Create needed volumes2) Create LPAR with already created volumes from previous step For the storage virtualisation we use SVC. The SVC is configured to use round-robin for...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Setting a specific SCG as default for better integration with orchestration solutions

The concept of an SCG is Power specific, so the default OpenStack API does not offer a direct way to provide the SCG during LPAR deployment. This creates a lot of work to integrate orchestration or DevOps solutions with PowerVC, because we have to...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC allows both local and LDAP users to authenticate in parallel

You can either have the local users OR LDAP configured with PVC, not both. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSXK2N_1.4.1/com.ibm.powervc.standard.help.doc/powervc_ldap_hmc.html Also as per the IBM technician for a case opened there is n...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

PowerVC SAN zone creation feature request

Currently, PowerVC creates HBA or WWPN specific SAN zones. Since the SAN fabrics can contain aliases and zones that are not necessarily PowerVC related, this can result in a SAN administration nightmare. I would like to see PowerVC create LPAR/VM ...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

PowerVC - LPM validate not supported

When we have to manage a lot of AIX's (more than 2000), LPM operations become critical. We have to be sure that LPM operations will succeed. Same process that are on HMC. PowerVC at this time, don't propose to validate a LPM operation.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration