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Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

extend AIX ARTEX catalog for rdma capable SR-IOV Logical ports and vNIC backing device (adapter/ofedroce)

SRIOV VF RDMA is NOT supported on most LP. nevertheless the default value of rdma is desired and increase VIOS memory footprint in large environments.
4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review
104 VOTE

AIX secldapclntd and LDAP load module should successfully recognize and interpret the FreeIPA time stamp format

FreeIPA LDAP server, also know as Red Hat Identity Management, software stores password change time stamps in this format: krbLastPwdChange: 20200929123058Z That appears to be a YYYMMDDhhmmss format. AIX's secldapclntd LDAP client and LDAP load mo...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Cloud Connector Status report also HMC hostname

it's much easier to find HMC hostname during investigation
7 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Setting cap/uncap for existing VM in PowerVC

Currently PowerVC allows setting cap/uncap mode via compute template before VM creation. There is no way to change this once the VM is created. The request is to allow cap/uncap to be changed after the VM is created.
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Declare UTF-8 character lenght in SQL TABLE not in bytes

Currently, when I create a new table and declare a field, for example, of type CHAR(10) UTF-8, the system only allows for 10 characters if each character is 1 byte in size. If a character occupies 2 or more bytes, the field length is no longer suf...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Add a new option on CRTDUPOBJ to replace the object

Create a new option REPLACE(*YES|*NO) on the CRTDUPOBJ command that will replace the TO object if it exists. This will allow you to use Wildcards and just replace the object. The use case for this is so, we need to copy objects from one library to...
8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Under review

SRCSTMF parameter for CRTDSPF

As we are using more and more modern ways and tools to develop our software, it really hurts that one has to copy DDS sources to a member in a temporary source physical file in order to be able to create a display file. I’m pretty sure that it wou...
6 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

CMC alerting into e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, etc. .

CMC notifies customers by e-mail. However, most customers use a central monitoring application such as Nagios, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, etc.. CMC alerts should also be sent to the customer's monitoring application. Which the IT-Operations team is mo...
6 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Enable TR-31 Import / Export of AES K0-B and K1-B Key Blocks for 4767/4769 crypto cards

For important bank compliance with MasterCard, we need use to TR-31 KEY EXPORTER in KEK value with mode of use BThe used parameters are:Key block version: VARDRV‑BValue of use: KEKMode of use: ENC-DEC In the APAR OA64883 was published for Z series...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

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