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PowerVC Delete lpar menu to include post-processing script to remove lpar from Chef

Provide the ability to input a post-processing script in PowerVC when deleting lpars to include a method to unregister the lpar from Chef.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Virtual Hierarchical Switching Fabric

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between the next version Power System ( may be IBM Power 11 or Later ) and Exa scale AI Data Centers based ...
over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

Support for VIOS Secure Boot

Provide secure boot support for the Virtual IO Server to have this feature continuous in the virtualisation and OS layer.
almost 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

probevue Enhancement to handle security product system calls

When security products such as Imperva or Guardium is used, the probevue tool in AIX is unable to find the system calls that these security products intercept such as read, write, open, close, stat, etc. This makes it impossible to use probevue sc...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

POWER mashine system location sync for HMC

in the HMC for POWER machine it is possible to define a "System location" under general setting in the machine profile, unfortunately this field is not synced between the HMCs in case of a redundant environment. Please sync the "System location" b...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

AIX Host kerberization utilities to join domain does not exist

AIX OS should have proper tools to join AIX machine to Active Directory (LDAP for authorization and Kerberos for authentication). Other OS like RHEL7 have realm join feature. 1) Creates computer object in AD2) Sets SPN for computer object. 3) Cuts...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

IBMi HTTP Server IHS support for website creation on IASP

Actual IBM i HTTP Server doesn't support the creation via GUI of a website defined in IASP, you have to create it on SYSBAS and then move it on IASP manually, doing tricky steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/706779 Could it be possible t...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

STRDBG can not show values for arrays that are indexed by (*)

When using STRDBG to debug a RPG program there is a problem when you want to display an array that is indexed by (*). For example this program:D nbr s 10i 0 dim(10) C eval nbr(*) = 1234 C eval *INLR = '1' C return If you put the cursor on the fiel...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Future consideration

Highlight and or color parens

I'd like RDI to highlight or colorize matching parens. When nesting BIF's this can be a real useful feature when debuging and understanding code. Use Case: Debgugging, or changing code where multiple parens are used. Here is an example of a line o...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

live update AIX7.2 LKU Minimum memory

I know AIX need at least 2 Go memory, all of our LPARs have more that 2 Go Online MemoryFor an obscure historical reason, our old LPARs have just 1 Go minimum memory .We cannot change this "profil" attribut without stop and restart theses LPARs , ...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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