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CMC alerting into e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, etc. .

CMC notifies customers by e-mail. However, most customers use a central monitoring application such as Nagios, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, etc.. CMC alerts should also be sent to the customer's monitoring application. Which the IT-Operations team is mo...
6 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Enable TR-31 Import / Export of AES K0-B and K1-B Key Blocks for 4767/4769 crypto cards

For important bank compliance with MasterCard, we need use to TR-31 KEY EXPORTER in KEK value with mode of use BThe used parameters are:Key block version: VARDRV‑BValue of use: KEKMode of use: ENC-DEC In the APAR OA64883 was published for Z series...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

add extra detail to the view qsys2.AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART_INFO

for the AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART_INFO view please add a column for the number of records in the data mart file.
16 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

PowerVC with 2 HMC

Our customer "Etat de Geneve" many Power systems with PowerVC and dual HMC. In powerVC, one have the possibility to connect a host with 2 HMCs, one being primary, the other being secondary. To improve performance, one can load-balance the connecti...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add availability info (version/release/TR) to Info Center

Please add availability info to RPGLE BIFs, SQL functions/procedures, catalog views and IBM i services (like table functions, etc.). Some information like: Available since 7.3 TR 2 and 7.4 This would make it easy to check backward compatibility.
8 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 3 Submitted

Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
6 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

BRMS ICC backup to AWS Cloud only allows US East region for storing data

Please see PMR Case number TS016529098. We are looking to use BRMS to send backup data to an S3 bucket at AWS. By default it is directing to AWS US East region and we are told there is no option to send data to another region. We faced issues with...
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Submitted

Detailed documentation of the database tasks ACS

Detailed documentation of the database tasks implemented in ACS would be necessary to improve their use and understanding. Unfortunately, there is no documentation in the knowledge centre or in the manuals that corresponds to the power of the data...
3 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

DB2 for i GeoServer extension

We need to deliver geospatial data to the company via GeeoServer but we haven't found an extension that allows us to use DB2 for i as a datastore. There is a extension to DB2, but is for DB2 LUW and do not work with DB2 for i. (https://docs.geoser...
2 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

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