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openssh 9.x with HMC 10

align to openssh 9.x available on AIX and Linux . i.e: legacy SCP protocol for file transfers instead of the SFTP protocol a.s.o.
11 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Persistent virtual adapter ID values (also known as slot numbers) for Live Update operations

During AIX Live update operations are changed slot values. Please improve customization of Live Update Operation and allow customer to specify virtual slot IDs for the target partition and VIO servers which are operating that partition.
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

re-add the ability to edit SR-IOV backing device editing in LPM gui

In the v9 interface when performing an LPM verfication, you could modify the backing device mappings, such that the % of logical port, which VIO to control that backing device, etc, could all be modified to accomodate the possible differences in b...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

ACS - Consuming high memory in Citrix

Our Citrix users workstation were recently upgraded from IBM i Access for Windows to Access Client Solutions. And we observed that ACS was consuming high amount of memory. Citrix team already tried this document found in IBM portal (https://www.ib...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

POWER firmware start policy should have an additional option (when Novalink, PowerVC used)

Add an option to the Firmware Start Policy settings in ASMI to include an option to only start Virtual I/O Servers AND Novalink on a regular power-on.For a recovery boot it should start NO partitions or ONLY VIOS, but certainly not Novalink and ce...
about 4 years ago in PowerVM 2 Future consideration

Allow copy to clipboard on all ACS dialogs

All ACS dialogs should provide the ability to mark text and copy to the clipboard Use Case: When an ACS error is display, you have the option to generate the service log. Which displays MSGGEN002 - The request completed normally - followed by the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Future consideration

Option to log stdout/stderr with swrole

One of the advantages of sudo over AIX RBAC is ability to record commands and their stdout/stderr - see logio in sudo documentations and sudoreplay. We need similar functionality in AIX RBAC. When user activates a role using swrole and the logging...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Support for NFS in updlic

Almost all HMC commands support NFS as a way of obtaining updates or storing information. updlic can't use nfs now: ``` -r - the repository from which LIC updates will be retrieved: ibmwebsite - IBM service website ftp - FTP site sftp - secure FTP...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

WRKACTJOB automatic refresh resets statistics

when running WRKACTJOB SBS(whatever) INTERVAL(xxx) the display is refreshed every xxx seconds, but the statistics (F11 further screens) are reset (like F10), not refreshed (like F5) as the help text suggests.This avoids counting interactions and r...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Future consideration

Allow to disable NFS client delegation on NFS server

When an NFSv4 client mounts a share from an NFS server and has nfso client_delegation set to 1, it causes the rtcmd daemon on NFS server to establish a callback connection to the n4bg daemon on the NFS client on a random high port. These connectio...
about 4 years ago in AIX 3 Functionality already exists

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