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Issue audit journal entry when Password Level 4 hash is generated at signon.

For high availability replication products, knowledge is needed when a user profile changes. In most cases an audit journal entry is issued. However, when both the source and target systems are at OS 7.5 or 7.6 and a user profile does not yet have...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

Make group tags on HMC accessible via the CLI

In the HMC, there's an option to create and list group tags. This is only available in the HMC browser. It would be good to include the tags in the output of the lssyscfg -r lpar command. These tags should also be able to be set using the chhsyscf...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

add lun to asp, disk formatting too long

Today with Flash disk and capacity up to 30TB the function add lun is too long. When we rebuild lpar from scratch we need many days to do it, moreover, if there are about a hundred lpar to be done. Is there a possibility to improve this feature Th...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Submitted

Add proxies parameters accross the board in the QMGTOOLS utility

Depending on the way company networks are configured proxies may be an important way to connect to the internet.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

Add a "Last Active" Timestamp or number of elapsed seconds since the last activity for a Job to WRKACTJOB and QUSRJOBI API

While we know that interactive jobs have an inactivity timer on them, the Work Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) and the corresponding API do not provide us with information on how long a user hasn't had an interaction with the 5250 session or a batch job h...
2 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

Run SQL Scripts: Remove redundant variable prompting

When prompting for multiple substitution variables with same name, only prompt once.
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

HMC V11 should support download the zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI

HMC V11 now supports collecting service data like VIOS snap, HMC debug and is able to automatically upload to an IBM case.If the client do not allow automatic upload or wants to collect data later, after the case has been created, then it would be...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Improve samba client response time.

Development found the I/O slowness is related with the oplocks & leases (feature-1082272) implementation. Looks like storing the data locally in VMM and reading back is causing the slowness. This needs more analysis and also might need in dept...
2 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Start Offline checkbox on RDi startup.

Sometimes it happens the RDi after entering signon credentials hangs during startup for different reasons (e.g. display file source tab in update mode was left open when closing workspace) In many of such cases a problem can be resolved by setting...
2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Under review

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