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Upgrade dns BIND to a current version

Upgrade BIND level to a level which will allow us to pass audits. Simply patching ancient versions of BIND to address various CVE's does not help us to pass audits.See https://www.isc.org/downloads/the BIND level on 7.1 and above is way back at 9....
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Delivered

Improve performance of fetching VIOS object

Currently our compute service depends heavily on fetching the VIOS object. Whenever the host has a lot of LPARs or LPARs with a lot of disks attached to it, the Rest api to get the VIOS object times out after 2 mins. Unfortunately this affects the...
over 5 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 3 Delivered

Add Ability to Disable Menu Bar on Popup Keypad

Users are able to modify the Popup Keypad in ACS 1.1.8.3 Build 9490 Use Case: User have three options provided to them on the popup keypad: 1) Connect 2) Disconnect 3) Exit All. Having the menu visible and functional, could allow a user to modify ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

SSD Fuel Gauge SQL Service

Add a new IBM i service to return the SSD Fuel Gauge information. Use Case: Allow writing monitoring tools using SQL instead of having to run the SSD Fuel Gauge command (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

BRMS recovery reports: support recovery from a H/A system

Let's say you have a system PROD1. Let's say you are using HA replication software like Mimix or Quick-EDD to replicate to PROD2. You back up PROD1 only once a quarter. However you backup PROD2 5 days a week.In this scenario can you generate a rec...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 8 Delivered

'VIOS/AIX notify client partitions that a VIOS dump is about to occur

VIOS/AIX needs to somehow notify client partitions that a VIOS dump is going to occur and allow the clients to immediately close their connections so that they can route to another VIOS server for processing during the dump See customer outage: TS...
about 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

PDF A3

We need the possibility of creating PDF-files in format A3 Use Case: ovrprtf wscst(*pdf)
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Print 6 Delivered

vHMC: Show full screen

We are running x86 vHMCVersion 9Release 1Service Pack 940Build Level 1911021524Base Version V9R1Model Type Ve67-f61Serial Number 0e11c02BIOS 6.00HMC driver n/aMH01831 - HMC V9R1 M931MH01836 - HMC V9R1 M940 When I look at the screen from vCenter th...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Make "Navigator for i" more like "System i Navigator" still is now!

In the web based Navigator for i it is very impractical to work with multiple systems at once.In the "fat client" System i Navigator it was much more user friendly to have all your systems in 1 view which makes it easy to manage and use them.It is...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / System Management 7 Delivered

ACS RSS Allow for overwrite cursor.

The SQL editor needs to allow for overwriting characters. Use Case: Attempt to change a single character many times on many lines of SQL code. YOu are forced to insert your new character then delete the unwanted character.
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

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