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Support 64bit OpenSSL libraries on i7.4

With the release of i7.5 the OS delivered OpenSSL PASE libraries are compatible with 64 bit applications, but for releases prior to i7.5 they are only compatible with 32bit linkage.As most applications are being built as 64bit architecture binarie...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Under review

PowerSC anti malware feature should have an option to integrate with the FIM functionality

The PowerSC anti-malware feature should provide an option to integrate with the FIM (File Integrity Monitoring) functionality. If the user selects this option, then whenever a monitored file is modified, PowerSC should automatically scan this file...
over 1 year ago in PowerSC 2 Under review

Add compiler error or descriptive runtime error to ILE C/C++ compiler in case of invalid pointer casts

We have encountered a problem at runtime when using a third party library (rdkafka) compiled with ILE C compiler. The functions used to set a call back function in the configuration converted a function pointer to a char pointer. We could build th...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 2 Under review

CMC to be integrated with Capacity Planning Tool

Customer is requesting for the CMC visuals to be integrated with CPT
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Under review

set the firmware bootlist by hmc cli command

When a (AIX) partion is created (mksyscfg) and the partition is started, the boot has a 'default' boot list. We would like to be able to set it by a HLC command, so to avoid cd usb rmt and have just hard disk as entry. Rationale: avoid any othe...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

Straighten Event handling in PowerHA / SystemMirror

PowerHA uses "events" to handle transitions to various states. (At least some of) These events are poorly described in the documentation and the usability of PowerHA would greatly profit from an improvement there. Furthermore - as described in the...
almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Under review

Highly available solution for PowerSC MFA using PowerHA (smartassist)

PowerSC MFA 2.0 now supports Postgres replication for High Availability. It would be a simple task to build start/stop and monitoring scripts for PowerHA to manage the availability of the MFA server, the database and the keys. This would allow for...
almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Under review

Future price update should be reflected on e-Config

We see quite many price increase or decrease announcements with future effective date, but e-Config always output the price as of today. We want to have some mechanism in e-Config to specify the "as of date" in order to reflect the updated future ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

IBM Cloud Support Notifications

When sending email updates on support cases, can you include the current case status (maybe former too)? I ask because, often I create cases and your team will update it in the portal to say they are researching or something similar. I then get an...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Under review

PowerHA Verify

PowerHA verify and sync should have a verify only option to verify the configuration before making changes to the cluster.
over 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Under review

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