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user customizable HMC smtp event-notification

The existing HMC smtp event-notification feature is suboptimal. It is missing essential information and email subject is cosmetic verbiage. Make it possible for user to customize subject and mail content extracted from HMC serviceable-events. The ...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

DATFMT(*JOBYY) for date fields in DDS

We want to control the format of our date field dynamically depending on a country or user setting. Normally you can use the DATFMT keyword to set the date's format. And all formats are supported. Our idea was to use DATFMT(*JOB) because we wanted...
4 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Delete/Drop VM without deleting/dropping any LUN/Volume

Today, when I delete a VM, I have to choose at least one boot volume to delete. I would like to have the option of deleting a VM while keeping ALL of its volumes in storage, just the volumes. The other settings, such as storage host, SAN zoning, V...
14 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Rsyslog with omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support

Hello, I request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the omkafka module and libsasl/GSSAPI support. We are encountering the following error in our environment: 7216.011687000:main Q:Reg/w0 : errmsg.c: Called LogMsg, msg: omkafka: error cr...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

EIM System User credential setup on the terminal screen.

EIM System User can be specified solely on the Navigator i GUI. This limitation makes impossible any automation to follow the security rules and change the password regularly according the security standards. Provide a command to change the passwo...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Do not use QSECOFR for Transform Services (5770TS1) jobs or functions at V7R5

Per the IBM i 7.5 Security Planning and setting up system security manual: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/pdf/rzamvpdf.pdf, the use of QSECOFR user profile on the system is discouraged. However Transform Services (5770TS1) jobs, QCTXMGR ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Print 1 Submitted

Allow ACS to start in Group view

I'd like ACS launch parameter that would start ACS in System Groups view directly - will be very helpful for those managing large number of partitions.
10 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs.

Implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs. When a node failure occurs on the service machine and the shared disk created by AIX LVM mirror is taken over to the standby machine, syncvg is forced using t...
10 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

Add TLS support for SNDDSTJS

Add TLS 1.3 support for SNDDSTJS to connect to a remote mail router without authentication. Advanced job scheduler notification properties does not have the option to enable TLS. TLS is required by some companies including financial intuitions.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

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