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Port Linux package SSSD into AIX for Active Directory authentication

There are costed product options that allow user and group management from Active Directory and authentication. SSSD has been ported to different flavors of Linux and to have it working on AIX would provide simplicity and reduced cost.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

License IBM Cloud Portal Code

IBM's Cloud portal is based on PowerVC / Openstack and provides very good deployment and billing capabilities. Why not offer this code to customers who are currently using PowerVC in their own on-prem solution.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

In ACS on the command line when you run a transfer from IBM i to excel without a dtfx you can not specify the locale values such as date format or decimal point

Anybody using ACS and doing batch transfer of data. This is a basic setting in countries outside US and it is blocking larger adoption of this functionality.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Not under consideration

Include override to location of source members when debugging programs.

At some sites, the old practice of using a temporary library for additions and changes to programs is utilized, example:- DATALIB- TEMPLIB- PRODUCTIONLIB After say 2 weeks of no issues, the objects are moved to the PRODUCTION library. Problem:When...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Future consideration

SQL DB2 change in the for system name

When you create an SQL table and the object identifier specified is a valid system name you can not specifiy a different for system name. I would like to be able to specifiy a different name for compatibility with older programs while using newer ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

PowerSC agent to support Openshift cluster security compliance

This would be useful if PowerSC can extend its support and management to the level of the Openshift Containers Security.We understand, it works (manage security comliance) on AIX and Linux on Power on different features including FIM, Comlpiance, ...
about 1 year ago in PowerSC 1 Under review

SQL constraint "FOREIGN KEY DEFERRABLE"

One strength of relational databases is their constant vigilance over data correctness. The user can declare constraints that their data must obey, and then leave it to the database to enforce the rules. This saves a lot of procedural application ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

OBJECT_STATISTICS table function should return source information for CRTBNDxxx compiled objects.

OBJECT_STATISTICS currently returns NULL for the source info for programs compiled with CRTBNDxxx commands. That info it is available in DSPPGM for the object if you drill into the QTEMP module of the program. This would be helpful for users wanti...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

Please add relational view in new carbon GUI

It adds convenience and time saving/productivity to view and work with all partitions, Client and VIOS partitions, for each system all in one view
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Fabric monitoring/visibility for PowerVC

Hello team, We have PowerVC 2.0.2 and during migration storage fabrics were replaced as well. Unfortunately without accounts for PowerVC. Once that was done PowerVC was blind for that, we tried:- create new LUN - it failed, without any notificatio...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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