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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Provide a means to Enable DNS from the HMC CLI

NTP can be both configured and enabled from the HMC CLI.To Configure NTP, use these commands:chhmc -c xntp -s add -a 172.21.128.95 -i eth0To Enable NTP, use this command:chhmc -c xntp -s enable To configure DNS, I can use this command:chhmc -c net...
about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

RSE "Filter Strings" Dialog Usability

This dialog must be one of the strangest and most incomprehensible Windows dialogs in any Windows application anywhere. I am always puzzled by: 1. The flow of control: How the buttons and dropdowns work, how they're related to one another, in what...
almost 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Update version of ISC BIND used for AIX

IBM's present/default version of BIND for AIX is v9.4,...which is considered by vulnerability scanning tool Qualys as being EOL/Obsolete. Indeed the latest version of BIND is v9.11. Although IBM AIX support has confirmed that they are still fully ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Make background IBM i search not interfere with opening member, running commands, debugging

Running of IBM i searches can now be done in background which does not block the UI and we can now edit an already opend member. However, the search uses the same communication channel as is used to run commands, open members, expand items in RSE,...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

vNIC not shown in properties of a partition but is displayed in profile in Classic HMC

When displaying in classic GUI on the HMC, vNIC is not shown in properties but is displayed in the profile. Properties shows what is active and if vNIC is active, it should be shown.
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Allow changing color of block nesting arrows

We have some developpers that change the Lpex editor colors to have a black background which they find less hard on the eyes. The show block nesting action (ctrl-shift-o) uses dark blue arrows to show the nesting of if / do / for, etc. That color ...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Updating list of audit events

Customer is looking for a documentation update to the events for auditing. Customer originally opened this DCR in 2014, but it was not moved over when DCR's were migrated to RFE's. Everything from the original information on this DCR request has b...
over 7 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

auditpr -v enhancement

Issue: When using the command auditpr –v, each event is output as two distinct lines. The first line contains the audit event, time, user, command, etc. The second line contains critical trail details about the event. This two line format prevents...
over 7 years ago in AIX 14 Delivered

AIX alt_disk_copy command should detect a rootvg with two boot logical volumes.

When the AIX alt_disk_copy command is run against a rootvg containing multiple logical volumes of type 'boot', the new copy of the rootvg is unbootable. The alt_disk_copy command could easily detect this error and fail with an error message. I'm w...
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

viostat does not report statistics for SSP LU backed VTD

Customer Raiffesen Schwez reported via PMR 08673,112,848 that iostat is not reporting statistics for SSP LU backing devices.This is something they needed to debug an I/O performance issue. We discussed this with Mike Cyr who thought this is not re...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered