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Better security for password validation program

Hello, I'am wondering if that would not be possible to secure a little bit better the validation program that can be setup in the QPWDVLDPGM and/or in the "QIBM_QSY_VLD_PASSWRD » format VLDP0100 and VLDP0200 exit points. I understand that just the...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Delivered

lldp daemon to be implemented for all editions of AIX 7.x.

System: AIX 7.1, AIX 7.2Customer needs the lldp daemon to be implemented for all editions of AIX 7.x.Now the lldpd service and the actual /usr/sbin/lldpd binary are part of # lslpp -w /usr/sbin/lldpd FileFileset Type /usr/sbin/lldpd ios.vnet File ...
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Update "verify" error message - Disk does not attached to FC Group

When a verify is run too soon after a discovery is run, the error "Disk does not attached to FC Group" is shown. Besides the grammatical correction needed, VMRMDR needs to have its error logic updated to reflect what is truly happening - VMRM call...
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Delivered

Outline view not showing indicator (M) flag

The outline view does not display the modified flag (M) for the fixed format opcodes SETON and SETOFF. Use Case: Everyday while maintaing 3rd party source.
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Process improvement to quiesce workloads prior to Live Kernel Update

Currently clients have to follow an elaborate process to quiesce workloads manually, and they would prefer to have support from the LKU preparation process to identify what apps or processes are impacting LKU. Evan Zoss and Carl Burnett have asked...
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Table "Files" should contain entries for all the known types used for source file members by default and not only a subset.

When opening a stream file in the IFS with the LPEX editor, then the LPEX editor has to determine if the stream file contains text or binary content. This will be done by the extension of the stream file name and the content of the table "Files" i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Check power IO enlarged capacity programmatically

We need a way to check / display the setting of the 'Enlarged I/O capacity' setting of the power server adapters. This setting is essential for the correct functionality of the ESS IO servers and its misconfiguration has performance and stability ...
almost 9 years ago in PowerVM 3 Delivered

Nav4i Fingerprinting

Nav4i uses the fingerprinting functionality of a browser. In the link below is described what the impact of allowing fingerprinting in a browser does:https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting-with-firefox/ Use Case: As Firefox o...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Request the ability to set the XCOFF header timestamps generated by the linker to NULL

system：aix7200app：makeC++SharedLiblanguage：c++The 'makeC++SharedLib' app is a helper script that invokes the AIX ld linker (not the compiler), which is used to produce shared libraries, including *.ibmcpp files. When *.o files have no changes，ever...
over 3 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Ability to zone Storage Controller (SVC) specific ports

A customer wants to adopt PowerVC to automate and manage more efficiently AIX VMs. However PowerVC uses all ports of SVC (Storage Controller) to zone AIX virtual FC adapters depending of storage access requirements set in SCG and FC. SVC level por...
almost 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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