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PowerSC Patch Management feature should also manage HIPER ifixes

The PowerSC Patch Management is an excellent feature to manage security ifixes. There are few customers who want PowerSC to also manage HIPER ifixes. Currently PowerSC only download security ifixes. It would be nice if PowerSC can also download an...
7 months ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

Monitoring or tracking changes done in DCM

Hi Team, We have a scenario where certification was unassigned from one of the application and so inorder to prevent this from happening again, we need to identify the cause of this issue ie we need to know who has made those changes to the DCM. S...
11 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Add ability to Run Sql scripts to enter qualifed name for Insert Generated SQL

Clicking ADD and navigating through Schemas can take long and be tedious when having to do more than one a day. Please give ability to enter /qsys.lib/mylib.lib/mytable.file, etc. so I can just type it in.
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Provide a CTL-OPT keyword to prohibit or issue a compiler warning when $ or @ are used in Variable or Procedure names

The use of $ and @ in variable names and procedure names in RPG IV hasn't been recommend in nearly 30 years. Yet we still see some legacy developers using those symbols for some reason. I'd like to see a compiler option or CTL-OPT keyword and eith...
11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

AIX: OpenSSH support for authenticating with FIDO2 credentials.

Having OpenSSH at least in version 8.2 and getting support for ed25519-sk type of keys would be a gain.
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

IBM i V7R1 request for S914 and S924 Support Also

It was announced that IBM i V7R1 will be supporting the S922 and E980 beginning Nov 20, 2020. Multiple partners and clients in the US and Canada have asked why the S914 and S924 are excluded as they have customers with legacy applications that the...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Not under consideration

Create IMAGE based upon ISO

Just as it is possible to create a VIOS image based upon ISO files within "Templates and OS Images" section in HMC it would be nice if it was possible to do the same with other operating systems aswell at the "Partition" section.
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Emulex Dirver Support for the Emulex SAN Manager

Support for Congestion Management, Visibility of Transceiver Data and Inventory of all Power Emulex HBAs. Customers can do autonomous Congestions Managment who can help them mitigate Performance Problems. With the Visibility of Transceiver Data th...
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Under review

Do not see throttled machine(s) in the CMC GUI and got no SMS / Mail about Throttling

Hi by accident we see in our environment one E1080 throttled...i see this at the HMC but o don't see any message, Graphical hint or whatever in the CMC. So i want to see when login to CMC an alter about throttling and want to receive SMS , Mail if...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add Last Used Time for Object

Currently, create and change have both the date and time but last used only has the date. It would be nice to be able to see the last used time of an object as well. Checking what time an object has been used would useful in validating if an objec...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

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