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LPM CLI validate - choose highest speed pair for MSP.

We had a case wherein using CLI LPM, we only chose a single MSP. LPM added a secondary MSP, but the MSP chosen was the 1gb mgmt interface of the VIO servers. this caused us problems, and is also not optimal. LPM should choose the fastest interface...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

ACS SQL実行結果を多段表示に

Access Client Solutions の スキーマ > SQLスクリプトの実行 機能について。 複数のSQLスクリプトを同時に実行した際の、実行結果についてです。 現在の Ver. 1.1.9.7 では、それぞれの実行結果タブが１行で表示され、１行で表示しきれないタブは矢印ボタンで探す必要があります。 以前の Ver.1.1.8.8 では、それぞれの実行結果タブが多段で表示され、１行で表示しきれないタブは上下に全て表示されていました。そのため、探したい実行結果を探す操作が必...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Planned for future release

VIO Maintenance and Check modes in HMC

Almost every customer, I've seen in the field, has some sort of scripts to check status of paths on the client LPARs and SEAs on VIO, and switch them off during maintenance (e.g. VIOS update). The usual way, a customer does VIO maintenance, is:1. ...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 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

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...
about 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...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Planned for future release

Feature: disable "case-insensitivity" HMC-username for ldap user

Unfortunately, with the HMC it depends on the upper and lower case of the user name by login (via GUI and SSH). Often the maintenance of the username in the LDAP is not completely uniform. e.g. old user: -user132-Admin1. new user : -user132-admin1
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Schedule operations on command line for profile-data backup in HMC

Not only HMC and VIO backup, but also managed systems profile backup is needed on schedule operations. And it is better to manage the schedule operations on command line.
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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.
about 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.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

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