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AIX ansible support for generating encrypted passwords.

https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/issues/548 Request to add support to ansible for AIX to add user password generation with encryption
16 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

NVMeOF support in PowerHA

Fibre Channel (FC)-Nonvolatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics (NVMeoF) protocol in the PowerVM N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) stack (NVMeoF) offers a significant boost in performance and efficiency. AIX on Power Systems, supports NVMe over Fi...
about 2 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

UAK expiry - send an alert from the HMC before it expires

When a UAK expires it creates a lot of noise - the attention LED is lit against a managed system, a serviceable event is generated/sent and an alert sent to every LPAR on the managed system. Whilst I am aware that it is possible to automate the UA...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

Terraform support for ppc64le

Terraform is #1 Infrastructure-as-Code tool used for cloud deployments and is developed by HashiCorp. HashiCorp was acquired by IBM this year. Still there is no Terraform on HashiCorp's site compiled for ppc64le architecture - https://developer.ha...
9 days ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Cross (solution applicable to multiple industries) 0 Submitted

be able to send authlog to an external server

We need authlog from the hmc sent to an external server (a clm for example) In the rsyslog config on the hmc, their is a config to send them to /var/hsc/log/secure : cat /etc/rsyslog.d/50-hmc-auth.conf => auth.* /var/hsc/log/secure & sto...
18 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Provide an option with which the Prestart Job statistics can be reset in Navigator for i (Nav4i).

As more and more tasks can be performed using the Navigator for i and SQL services, the role of 5250 emulation is changing and having to go there for a missing option becomes a burden. The Navigator for i is great for managing prestart jobs, but w...
18 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

user customizable HMC smtp event-notification

The existing HMC smtp event-notification feature is suboptimal. It is missing essential information and email subject is cosmetic verbiage. Make it possible for user to customize subject and mail content extracted from HMC serviceable-events. The ...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
5 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Handle VMs removed from HMC but not VMRDR

VMs removed from the HMC need to be removed automatically from KSYS or a warning displayed about the "orphaned" VM during the discover process.
10 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Submitted

Linear Tape File Sistem (LTFS) support on IBM i

LTFS is a common LTO tape format for offline archive across multiple platforms. It would be valuable for system adminstrators/operators if IBM i platform could also supports LTFS formatted LTO tape cartridge.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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