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Add Inherit Rules to IFS journalling

Today when you set up journalling for the IFS the STRJRN command allows you to filter the objects that are to be journalled, however this is a one off request and the inherit rules are not able to be set to allow future filtering of the objects jo...
4 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

Enhance lsmpio showing both storages in an policy-based HA environment (mirroring)

In an AIX VM using a FS9500 environment with policy-based HA it is only possible with lsmpio to see the primary storage node of the mirroring relation in the FS9500. It should be possible to see both storages of that relation. This is especially i...
7 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

reconnect buttom in RSS of ACS

Workaround for lost connection issue
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

Support for SFP mix in 4-port adapter EN24, EN26

Actual 4-port adapters EN24 and EN26 don't support mix of SFP. Many customers require to split management network usually based on 1Gb Ethernet from 10/25Gb access ports. 4-port adapters are ideal product to have dual VIO setup with pairs of these...
about 1 month ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

AIX ansible support for generating encrypted passwords.

https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/issues/548 Request to add support to ansible for AIX to add user password generation with encryption
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

PowerVC with PeerZoning/Smart Zoning

A new type of storage zoning is peerzoning or smartzoning. This method is clearer and more practical to handle. e.g. debugging etc.
about 1 year ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

alias be registerd in the niminfo file

To use IBM DB2, we need to configure the /etc/hosts file as follows:x.x.x.x nimmaster.ss.local nimmasterDue to this configuration, when registering the NIM client, it gets registered as nimmaster.ss.local instead of nimmaster, which results in the...
4 months ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Change the authentication service to not be in Brazil

Some customer are not allowed to have connection to some countries, for example when you connect to you CMC portal that is located in Franckurt Datacenter, you fisrt connect to https://blueid.powercmc.com/auth/sso for authentication, this service ...
14 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Enhance the CPYENVVAR parameter of the SBMJOB command to include *SYSVAL as an option

Rather than rely on the CHGCMDDFT command to change the default for the CPYENVVAR parameter of the SBMJOB command, it would be extremely beneficial to have a QSBMENVVAR System value with *YES or *NO as an option. Then on the SBMJOB command, change...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Submitted

be able to send authlog to an external server

We need authlog from the hmc sent to an external server (a clm for example) In the rsyslog config on the hmc, their is a config to send them to /var/hsc/log/secure : cat /etc/rsyslog.d/50-hmc-auth.conf => auth.* /var/hsc/log/secure & sto...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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