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Enhance Security of QUSEADPAUT system value and USEADPAUT in general

This is similar in intent to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4498 In support of 'deny by default' security principle, arrangements should be made to only generate programs and service programs with USEADPAUT(*YES), when A) explicitly requested ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

Increase UIM limit for WRKACTJOB

If there are more than 69927 jobs in a WRKACTJOB list, the usage of F7 Find would result in CPD0976, if the job is not within the list.This would cause abit of annoyance as alternative method would have to be use to achieve the same result
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Add the attributes like the owner and creation date on the netserver ffile share so we know who created it and when it was created like IFS objects showing the owner and creation date

Like IFS and object attributes, it is useful because we need to know who created and when it was created. Also, whatever the user creates the netserver file share, the user picks a name that might be acceptable or not acceptable. Also, it can be a...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Functionality already exists

UID for IBM i Digital Certificate Manager

I would like to bring to your attention a potential enhancement opportunity concerning the IBM i Digital Certificate Manager (DCM). During the process of Certificate Signing Request (CSR) creation, we have observed that there is no available field...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

Add support for hpt_ratios

Novalink supports PPT but not HPT (hardware page table), as such cannot tune memory for LPARs managed by novalink as you can on HMC managed. lshwres -r mem --level sys -F possible_hpt_ratios [PVME01040180-0024] Attribute possible_hpt_ratios is not...
about 2 months ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

RPO History and Thresholds

With asynchronous replication sessions in PowerHA, recovery point objective (RPO) type information is currently displayed in fields like data exposure and freeze time. However, this information is not retained for historical purposes and the regul...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Oauth authentification for email

Hello, In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online I...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Increase Ease of Bringing System Monitors Online

Problem Statement When the System Monitor service is down (either shutdown or post IPL) each system monitor needs to be activated individually and through the Navigator for i interface. Solution Request In addition to being able to bring the Syste...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Navigator for i - Trivializing SIEM Integration

Problem Statement Network and Security Operation Centers have a high desire to utilize SIEM technologies to centralize the logging of health, service status, system status, etc... of various appliances (both hard and software) in the enterprise. A...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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