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Allow ids on HMC's to not have a usable password.

Currently, we cannot setup an ID we must set a password to it. Recently, we have wanted to enable ID provisioning team to be able to manage ID's on the HMC's. They wish to use private / public key access via SSH exclusively, and as such we would l...
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Request to Change the design of powerHA Smart assit for Oracle which depends on /tmp fs to setup temp files to elsewhere

Customer wants to change the design code of powerHA smart assist for oracle which depends on /tmp fs to setup temp files to elsewhere.Customer had regular outages in recent days due to /tmp fs getting full since any (non-previleged) user/Applicati...
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

Create Volume does not default to the DEFAULT storage template

Create Volume does not default to the DEFAULT storage template. Instead it lists them in alphabetical order with the first one highlighted in the pull down menu.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Viewing and using groups in Console of Administration Runtime Expert

I would like my team to have the ability to view and verify groups I have created in Administration Runtime Expert. Currently, they can't even see them. But we can see and change the Deployment Templates.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

Please enhance Web Service Client for DCM applid

We need to have the Web Services Client enhanced to allow use of a DCM application id. We have hit an issue where the user profile must have read/execute access to the default KDB. Our clients will not allow this and don't want to maintain a separ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Delivered

ACS completely locked during SQL execution

Latest version of ACS hangs when executing long running SQL statement via SQL Scripts. Use Case: If I run a SQL script that runs for minutes (say 5) it locks all of my active ACS sessions, including 5250. Not very good. Also scrolling thru the SQL...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

New quick fetch property for HMC REST

I'd like to request new quick fetch property for SharedProcessorPoolhttps://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/POWER8/p8ehl/apis/SharedProcessorPool.htm Currently only PoolName quick property is available, I'd like to have also Pool size as qu...
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Add parameter to CHGPF to ignore CPA32B2

Our CI/CD software uses SSH to communicate with IBM i. In addition to installing ILE program objects, IFS files, ... it can also execute CHGPF. When removing a column from a PF IBM i will send the message CPA32B2 which will be automatically answer...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

SO_REUSEPORT path for AIX 7.2

Our current application accepts connection using a single process and creating a child processes to process each request as per your suggestion Please visit the below link and module on which couple of companies are already implemented on this mod...
over 4 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

lsmpio -q doesn't list the volume name for Infinidat Devices. It does for other storage vendors. Need Infinidat-specific code for lsmpio -q output

The customer opened Salesforce Case TS010299650, noting that lsmpio -q output for their Infinidat storage does not display the volume name. Sample output: root@HCMDVE2AGADM002:/>lsmpio -q Device Vendor Id Product Id Size Volume Name ----------...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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