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HMC to use Novalink to proxy/relay RMC connections for AIX & Linux

In a PowerVC Novalink environment where, for security or other reasons a direct RMC connection between the HMC and AIX/Linux is not allowed, it would be advantageous if the Novalink partitions could act as a proxy/relay for RMC connectivity betwee...
4 months ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

diagcloudconn needs more robust features in testing.

Many times when trying to diagnose an issue between HMC and CMC we are forced to engage IBM support to get access to such common commands as curl or wget or traceroute as they are locked down in the HMC. It is incredibly helpful to either allow ac...
10 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Provide a way to display the current smbc reauthentication timer value for a share

EMC servers don't accept asynchronous authentication data (in other words, a Session Setup Request with new credentials sent on an already established session). They return an error, interrupting service. Since reauthentication can't be disabled i...
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Detailed documentation of the database tasks ACS

Detailed documentation of the database tasks implemented in ACS would be necessary to improve their use and understanding. Unfortunately, there is no documentation in the knowledge centre or in the manuals that corresponds to the power of the data...
5 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

SAML 2.0 integration with IBM HTTP server for i

Add SAML 2.0 to the existing authentication methods that are supported by the IBM HTTP server for i.
10 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

aclput -R --ignoredirectory -i mycl /dir

I need to apply an AIXC ACL to the thousands of files in a directory tree as quickly as possible. The aclput -R command seems usable, but it also applies the ACL to the subdirectories found in the tree. As the acl is defined with rw-rw---- permiss...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Additions for the PRUV tool

Please add the following to the PRUV tool. Report on command default changes in IBM licensed program libraries. simple example (SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL', '*CMD')) > WHERE APAR_ID = 'CHGDFT';) possible enhancements: in ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

Handle VMs removed from HMC but not VMRDR

VMs removed from the HMC need to be removed automatically from KSYS or a warning displayed about the "orphaned" VM during the discover process.
2 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Submitted

DB2 for i GeoServer extension

We need to deliver geospatial data to the company via GeeoServer but we haven't found an extension that allows us to use DB2 for i as a datastore. There is a extension to DB2, but is for DB2 LUW and do not work with DB2 for i. (https://docs.geoser...
5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

User with only (but all) advanced roles assigned should be able to perform LPM (Migrate)

Even if all additional roles at once are assigned to a user the "Migrate" option does not appear on LPARs. This should be the case, because such users have the ability to clone, delete and move VMs and volumes - which is everything a LPM does. Aft...
2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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