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    Make MPIO path healthcheck timeout visible

    We have noticed that the healthcheck timeout is different to the rw_timeout, but there is no documentation on how to modify, if it is related to other values or a fix hardcoded value. It would be interesting to make this value known and potentiall...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Enhancements to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms command

    Requesting the folloing additional functionaluty to the /etc/security/pscexpert/bin/findperms search: - Please provide an option to ignore NFS Filesystems - Option to list the filesystems to scan - Option to ingore a list of filesystems in the scan
    almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

    HMC GUI, UAK expiration.

    Suppose that my frame's UAK are about to expire in a few days. Suppose I'm working on something else that requires my attention. Suddenly I begin to receive popups telling me that UAK are about to expire. I have about 50 frames so I receive about ...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Port of tesseract OCR to the open source packages

    Tesseract optical character recognition engine port to IBM will provide convenience and lower costs in building image-processing applications. Reasons for this poer are the followingThe first reason is convenience -- the C++ version of Tesseract c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Planned for future release

    Allow HMC to get OS version from Novalink

    If there is no RMC connection to the HMC from the partition(s), the OS level cannot be determined. This leaves the OS-level field "blank" on the HMC. This influences tools that rely on the OS version, like LPAR2RRD and also makes it more difficult...
    6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    OpenSSL: Remove weak ciphers

    OpenSSL is provided with the AIX base operating systems but it currently differs from the core open source offering on GitHub by deliverying a significant number of old and weak cipers. Core OpenSSL provides just 27 ciphers in its default build bu...
    over 7 years ago in AIX 9 Planned for future release

    HMC GUI should have an option of adding an LDAP group along with LDAP users

    HMC GUI should have an option of manage/add users as well as groups from LDAP. We currently have the LDAP configured under HMC to authenticate based on the individual user but not group. A case was opened with IBM support in order to provide a sol...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Planned for future release

    Use syslog service on VIO to send syslog into to syslog-ng splunk server

    In talking with our Premium Proactive Support Team Lead Kellie Kronenberger she encouraged us to submit what our security team is seeking to implement via syslog as regards certain VIO servers in our environment. What our security team wants to ha...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Planned for future release

    Group Tags lost during LPM

    HMC Group Tags are lost whenever an LPAR is migrated from one system to another. We use these tags to identify the workload and we have to re-create the tags every time we do LPM on the LPARs.
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Planned for future release

    Certificate used on port 9920

    Port 9920:"Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years - cert of IBMNot options to used my or cut to short lifespan to 820 days.
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

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