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PowerVC support for IPv6

We're running out of IPv4 space in our PowerVC environment and we're moving to IPv6. This will affect future PowerVC builds and we have a few pending coming up.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Generate Case Sensitive WSDL Service Names

When dealing with some 3rd Party applications they sometimes have requirements with having the service name in camel case. Currently when generating program info for the PCML you can specify *DCLCASE but that only applies to field names. Would it ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Show profile will be disabled msg even for non-valid profiles.

OS 7.5 changed to provide the same error message when signing on for the case where a userid is not defined or a userid is valid but the password is wrong. This was intended to not 'leak' information to a bad actor that they guessed a valid userid...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Allow journal entry read (RCVJRNE) and native DB I/O with field proc encoded data.

Consider a field proc used for field level encryption. When replicating database activity, the data must be decrypted as it is being read from the journal. It then must be re-encrypted when it is written to the database. It would improve performan...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Allow creation of a System Plan when system set to power off automatically when the last logical partition is shutdown

Currently, if you try to create a System Plan from your HMC for a server that is set to automatically power down the server when the last logical partition is shutdown, you get an error message. The work around is to set the system hardware not to...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Add ability to enter debug encryption key (dbgenckey) to debug via RDi service entry point

Please add the ability to enter Debug Encryption Key (if used) when entering Service Entry Point to debug a program from Rational Developer for i. Use Case: Turn on option to specify debug encryption key on Set Service Entry Point. In RSE, Right c...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

please package openssl for rsyslog in AIX

In product IBM TS7700 we want to provide our customers to use openssl with rsyslog, but the current aix rsyslog package do not include openssl. we would like to request it to be added.
about 4 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

PowerVC reporting

Use of a PowerVC reporting would offer a chargeback possibility, combining VM name, core- and memory-minutes (and possibly other parts). This report would also be good to generate from ansible and use for service follupup. also input our price for...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

snprintf() support in ProbeVue dynamic tracing

Implement snprintf() functionality within ProbeVue
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Change of Power Server Name in PowerVC

We have the need to change names in the HMC for managed systems (Power Server) for any reason from time to time. Currently PowerVC is not detecting it automatically and take proper action also for already installed and managed OS on this managed s...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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