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Seamless Integration of PowerVC MFA with PowerSC for Centralized Security Compliance

Currently, IBM PowerVC supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for user access. However, there is no way to integrate or enforce this MFA configuration within IBM PowerSC. This creates a gap in centralized compliance and security management bec...
2 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

PowerVC: Define concurrent deploy limits

PowerVC provides recommendations to set concurrent deploy limits here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervc-cloud/2.3.0?topic=powervc-planning-performance yet there is no cloud policy in PowerVC to enforce such limits, in multi-tenant environments i...
4 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Compliance - Data retention policy required for data and logs within powervc

To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within PowerVC that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

TS2290 and 7226-1U3 (LTO-9) SAS HH Tape drive support AIX & VIOS

LTO-9 SAS HH connected 7226 tape drives are not supported in AIX / VIOS partitions and may log VRSAS_FABRIC_ERROR, SRN2D11-4101 Please resolve this issue as soon as possible.SSIC is supported, but power is not.We would like to provide a SAS card t...
7 months ago in AIX 0 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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Submitted

centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Autoconfig attribute for the nvmeX devices

For unused fcnvme devices and unused fscsi devices, we provide an "autoconfig" options which allows us to put such devices in a semi-permanent Defined state. The customer would like an autoconfig attribute on the nvmeX devices as well, such that h...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Provide 64-bit build of BIND/named on AIX to remove MAXDATA constraints

Because of increasing memory demand we have named crashes that lead to production outages. named is shipped as a 32-bit binary at the moment which limits the amount of memory it can allocate. Please ship named as a 64-bit binary which will not rel...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

IBM i Services for the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS)

IBM i is moving into the direction of adding SQL service to nealry every part of the operating system, except for the Advanced Job Scheduler. To my knowledge there are none. Since the license simplification the use of the Advanced Job Scheduler is...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Add *OUTPUT to WRKSMTPUSR

Hi, After doing a STRIMPSMTP, we may need to do some change on each record to the list provided by WRKSMTPUSR. With thousend of records impossible to do that by hand. It would be usefull to get the same list in a PF to use ADDUSRSMTP or CHGUSRSMTP...
3 months ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Submitted

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