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labels for fiber channel ports

Can you introduce labels for fiber channel adapters/ports in HMC as we have it already for SR-IOV NIC´s? This feature for SR-IOV NIC´s is really great and i like to have it also for fiber channel as we have to deal with different SAN fabrics in ou...
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Allow for option UPDPROD(*YES) in Code Coverage

Please allow for an open to select UPDPROD(*YES) in code coverage Use Case: When i attempt to run Code Coverage and not ALL database items are in a TEST library the tool stops as soon as a program attempts to open these database items for update. ...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

NEED ADDED FEATURES FOR AIX TRUSTED EXECUTION

Hi Team, We use AIX trusted execution in our environment for some of critical AIX servers. The application is such that it undergoes some or other update very frequently and we have to repeatedly whitelist files in TSD manually. This becomes tedio...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 4 Delivered

creating a new field whenever the user account is created.

Whenever a Unix account is created, there is no field to determine when this account was created on the system. The time_last_login field is populated only when the user successfully logins. IBM should create a new field in the lastlog file where ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Monitor unexpected VM state changes

According to Case TS003725611 we need a way to monitor state of VMs. Sometimes, for unknown reason, machine change its state from READY_TO_MOVE to something different (INIT, READY). We'd like to know about these events.
over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Make "Check for updates" and API

The current method of checking for a i Access Client update can only be executed from the Main "Menu" in an "interactive" mode. It would be great to have an "API" that could be executed in "batch" on the iSeries so that we could send the appropria...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

PowerSC profile for HMC

PowerSC agent/profile for HMC to apply and monitor DOD compliance on our HMCs.
almost 5 years ago in PowerSC 5 Delivered

Manage key exchange algorithm in chhmcencr command

Current chhmcencr has restriction to manage key exchange algorithm. based on the manual:Usage: chhmcencr -c passwd | webui | ssh | sshmac -o a | r | s -e <encryption> [--help] As the parameter indicated above, it is managing password encrypt...
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Context-sensitive help with Fixed-format source BIFs

In Fixed-format RPGLE the F1 key does not pull up the help pages for a BIF you might want help with, but pulls up the help page for the RPGLE op-code on the same line instead. Please change this so that pressing the F1 key in fixed-format source p...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Request to fix chauthent command

Running 'chauthent -std' or 'chauthent -k5 -std' willuncomment shell/kshell/login/klogin entries in inetd.conf and refresh inetd automatically. This behavior needs to change, to avoid inadvertantly activating non-secure or otherwise unwantedservic...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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