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Bypass EVERYTHING to get to HMC console from iACS System Configuration

If, iACS System Configuration, I've clicked on HMC 5250 Console and click on Advanced there should be enough here to bypass: Management console user id and password Shared session key Service tool user id and password Preferred language There are ...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Sharing of VIOS Upgrade/Update ISO files between HMCs

Dear Sirs, we used the HMC to download and update the VIOS partitons on our Test-Site. Although we locally stored the ISO (on the HMC at the Test-Site), we were not able to transfer it to the HMC at the Production-Site. As we want to be sure to us...
10 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

There is a risk that the ethchan_config command may mistakenly change the IP address of enX interface.

Please Improve the specification of the ethchan_config command. ethchan_config should check the target device. The ethchan_config command can change the "netaddr" parameter of entX and set the address to ping of EtherChannel. However, the ethchan_...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

DCM *SYSTEM store password in admin-cust.xml files

In the security configuration files from ADMIN application servers (ADMIN1, ADMIN3, ....) the *SYSTEM store password is weakly encoded with {xor} and is easy to obtain if you have access to admin-cust.xml file in /QIBM/UserData/OS/ADMININST/[admin...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Future consideration

List procedures that a program uses in PROGRAM_EXPORT_IMPORT_INFO

Despite the name, the PROGRAM_EXPORT_IMPORT_INFO does not actually list the procedures imported by a program. This is important because, when the signature of a procedure changes, all programs that import (use) the procedure must be changed. Impor...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Store IFS information in SAVE_FILE_OBJECTS view

To list the contents of a savefile, we now have the SAVE_FILE_OBJECTS view. Although the documentation explicitly mentions that no IFS information is returned, it would be great to find this information in the view in a future update. https://www....
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
5 months ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
5 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration
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*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

AIX community edition for QEMU/KVM

AIX will remain the leading UNIX operating system for mission-critical environments for many years to come. It has performance, security and ease of administration features that make it a very interesting option for new deployments complementing t...
about 1 year ago in AIX 1 Under review

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