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PowerVP - Add virtual IP support for mover partitions

Currently PowerVC only supports SEAs and backing devices for MSPs. We would need the HMC team to provide VEA IPs in REST responses in order to validate the user specified IPs (from conf).
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

VM and captued Image editable comment field

Add to VM and Image a comment field that can be used at creation time and edited later.If it needs to be fixed length it needs to be generous, something like 256 or or 512 bytes.
about 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Do not show RPGLE hover info that simply parrots the actual line without additional info

The new hover function in the RPGLE editor tries to always show something.Sometimes that info is simply a repeat of the line (or part of line) under the mouse and adds no other information.This is distracting and mask part of the next line.For ins...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

PowerHA manage/unmanage - add an option to not run startup scripts on manage

We have a lot of PowerHA clusters - but many do not have application server monitoring configured, and many are old and we do not want to retrofit to configure them. Due to this, we cannot use the manage/unmanage functionality, as it will run the ...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

It is not possible to set SA idle timeout.

It is not possible to set SA idle timeout. There is no way to clear out SA if other peer not responding or gone without tearing down SA.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX does not support IKE fragmentation

AIX does not support IKE fragmentation, resulting in the certificate chain needing to fit into a 1500 byte packet along with other IKE payload. Therefore certificate chains larger than approx. 600 bytes will not be supported (no workaround).
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

When IKE negotiation fails there is no proper audit message

When IKE negotiation fails there is no proper audit message – this results not being able to detect condition and report it correctly.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Request to set/define SysName in /etc/snmpd.conf

Request to define/set sysName in /etc/snmpd.conf.
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Make the modify DrTargetHost persistent for VM's that are already on the desired target host

In a cluster configuration that uses mxn_pairing you have an option to change the target host manually after it has been automatically set. We use that functionality as we requirements for certain VM's to be on specific hosts. For licensing purpos...
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Delivered

Ability to re-login with different user in ACS Printer Output

I would like a menu option that will allow me to "sign out" and "sign back in" with different credentials in Access Client Solutions Printer Output. Use Case: We have users that have multiple different user ids that sign them into different enviro...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

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