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Customize encryption types for network authentication

When creating new keytab entries, the OS will automatically create entries for all known encryption types on the system: 56-bit DES 56-bit DES using key derivation 168-bit DES using key derivation 128-bit AES 256-bit AES ARCFOUR Since onl...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Delivered

Allow use of constant in ON-EXCP

Using constants in ON-EXCP would make the code more readable, and allow to share message ids in includes. Example: dcl-c ERR_CUSTOMER_NOT_FOUND 'ERR3452'; monitor; // do something.. on-excp ERR_CUSTOMER_NOT_FOUND; // handler endmon;
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Delivered

Re-instate Add Printer function in IBM Navigator for I

Navigator for I was once said to have the ability to add printers to an IBMi. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=printing-adding-printer-navigator-i It was removed, along with the whole Basic Operations task group. Because of its web pres...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

change RESPONSE_HTTP_HEADER for QSYS2.HTTP_GET_VERBOSE when we want cookie

The HTTP functions do not handle the multiple use of the "set-cookie" headers within an HTTP response. The root issue is that JSON keys should be unique and multiple instances of the "set-cookie" key are not permitted in JSON. Here is a possible a...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

RDI: Outline does not show SORTA modifying array

If you have a SORTA in the program then it is not shown in the outline that the array is modified, only referred to. The content of the array is not modified but the sequence might be changed. Like in the files you could show the operation done to...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

RSS Remember/reopen tabs

Hi, In addition to https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1576 (auto saving RSS tabs) it would be great if RSS remembered which tabs were open and would reopen them when restarting RSS. In addition, unnamed tabs should also be stored...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Enforce lockout after 5 or 3 failed password attempts on the SSH login on the HMC

In order to meet Lloyd’s security standards users should be locked out after 5 failed password attempts (for normal accounts) and 3 (for privileged accounts) on the SSH login on the HMC. We want it to perform a temporary lockout, as it does for th...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Add a column for "Volume ID" when looking at Host Volumes, Data Volumes, and Boot Volumes

It will help us in determining when reclaiming disks as AIX "hdisks" do not translate to the volume name in PowerVC. This is a tedious process when finding a volume to delete when there are hundreds of volumes provisioned. If we see a "Volume ID" ...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

IP adresses shall not be collected from client HMC

For security considerations, LPAR name and IP's adress shall not be collected from client HMC's. That's informations not needed on CMC and are very critical for client, only id of LPAR and frame name can be used.
about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 2 Delivered

Allow the CONST keyword for a standalone field or data structure

Our Generator (Synon) generates Code in Fixed RPG. Also we need to use our input and output fields in soap-server-modules as datastructures. So we have the problem to sign the *entry plist parms as an input or output (or both) - structure. It woul...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Delivered

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