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    Change references of "discovery" (no such process) to "discover"

    VMRDR has a "discover" and "verify" process but the word "discovery" is used too often, causes confusion, and should be changed to "discover". Here are two examples: 1. This vm's STATE should be "DISCOVER_FAILED" instead of "DISCOVERY_FAILED". The...
    5 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNav

    within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. As an example, Job name contains QBAT, QINT I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNavigator
    5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    MFA sur le pop-up de connexion apache

    Nous souhaiterions activer le facteur d’authentification supplémentaire (MFA) en frontal, au niveau de la connexion pop-up Apache.
    6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

    New -l (list) flag for 'vmruiinst.ksh' to show URL of all RPMs to download

    Currently the GUI vmruiinst.ksh script provides -d & -p flags to download required RPMs from the Internet (see Case TS019597256).Bust many Clients do not have an AIX LPAR with Internet connection therefore it's a problem for them to download a...
    6 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    "enhance" capture lpar as template to actually include all properties of the lpar

    Currently, vscsi storage (except for SSP) is omitted during capture. Including all storage from source lpar would make the feature do what it says on the tin.
    7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

    At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    chdef should be able to set queue_depth defaults for iscsi non-mpio disks.

    We use ISCSI disks and do not have multi path storage available to us, so we would need to set the queue_depth for all newly created iscsi disks. However, we have to use chdev to accomplish this manually for each disk instead of just setting the d...
    8 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.

    Enterprise Extender should be able to utilize a proxy and FQDN for connections.
    8 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    update the summ published version with some of the internal new details

    The currently summ published version (2.0 from 2021) could benefit of a new publishing with some of the apparent improvements in the internal version (specially verbosity about target ports and WWPN being decoded in some vfchost messages). Obvious...
    9 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted

    Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted instead of shrinking fs with chfs reclaim option (normal or fast)
    9 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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