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Provide an official and paid support line for the Opensource ClamAV with PowerSC

Customers in MEP, especially the Qatari banking sector, are looking for fully supported Anti-malware solution on IBM Power systems.Currently, it is doable via PowerSC with the Opensource ClamAV. However, ClamAV does not have official support chann...
3 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

PowerVC add support for mkvolume in place of mkvdisk

mkvdisk does not fully support iogroup placement ibm.com mkvolume Use the mkvolume command to create an empty volume from existing storage pools. You can use this command for high availability configurations that include HyperSwap, but it can also...
7 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Enhancing network performance analysis on IBM i with iPerf Integration

iPerf (iPerf - The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool) is a widely used command-line tool designed for measuring network performance by generating TCP and UDP traffic between two endpoints. It allows network administrators, engin...
5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Single VIOS Shared Storage Pool with Internal Storage

This request is for single VIOS / Single Server use case for Edge or Single Node implementations. These implementations are 'self contained' and do not have external SAN storage. Having VIOS provide a Shared Storage Pool on internal disk enables P...
about 2 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

Allow Subprocedure Exported Name to appear on the EXPORT keyword of DCL-PROC

When building RPG IV modules, the export name of Subprocedures must appear on the Prototype's EXTPROC keyword. If there is NO prototype, it may appear on the DCL-PI's EXTPROC keyword. However, if there is no Parameter List, often the DCL-PI does n...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
10 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

SRVAUTE replication administrative domain

When you replicate a user profile in an administrative domain at the moment SRVAUTE are not under replication. This could be a big problem for all applications that are using this os feature. So, at the moment the only way possible to replicate th...
28 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Change of WLM start/restart behave in passive mode

When restart or start Workload Manager WLM the AIX is set internal locks to be shure that no new porcess,fork etc can happen until AIX has checked all running processes again WLM rules. On a multi terrabyte memory machine this can lead to 5-7 minu...
12 months ago in AIX 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
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enhance Password Complexity Rules

Add capability in password system values or QPWDRULES to include passwords may not contain...Any Part of a Users Full nameContext Specific words, such as the name of an application/service/departmentDictionary words in any language
4 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

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