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powervc 2.0.3 without high availabity addon

You can only install powervc single node with available extension cost $399. I want to install powervc 2.0.3 on a single node not a high available cluster environment for test purposes etc . there for i have to enabel the high available extension ...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Need Maintenance mode switch for FW Update on SR-IOV cards

we have several SR_IOV config running wit SR_IOV native with NIB, vNIC Failover, SR-IOV VF for SEA etc.The problem we detected is that when doing a FW update for the SR-IOV cards we have either to do a lot of manual taks to switch to vNIC Failover...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance WRKOBJ to have elements from DSPLIB

When doing DSPLIB libname there is information about the object Size and a total count of objects in the library. When doing a WRKOBJ libname/objqualifier typequalifier there is no object size or object count displayed. Having this information dis...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

tool to summarize all PTFs and APARs in a CUME or group

CUMEs can contain hundreds of PTFs. Each PTF has an APAR and both should be reviewed for any special instructions and or issues in the APAR. It would be good to have a tool to filter through all this and summarize any actions or special issues. Us...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

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.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign On configuration with the Web Administration for i GUI

User use EIM, they don't have password. For opening web administration password is required. Use Case: User use EIM, they don't have password. For opening web administration password is required.
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Add IFS EDIT option like iNav has.

I would like to see the EDIT option put into the ACS software component for the IFS.Currently it is in the iNav component. So it would be beneficial to see it in the ACS side component. Use Case: I have .TXT and .LOG files that I would like to Edi...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

authentication both OS and LDAP at same time

it would be great and useful to add the capability of authenticate both ways using ldap and also SO based in case of my LDAP user gets locked or, let's say an AD problem...the solution right now is to re configure to OS (losing any actual config o...
9 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Have a straight access (button) to system debugger on the 5250 emulator.,

Faster than opening SQL and then Execution and then system debugger...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Under review

Add a WRKFCNUSG QIBM_QTMF_SERVER_REQ* option to restrict the system ftp subcommand.

Any ftp client can log into the server and use the ftp subcommand system to determine the name of the OS and what level it is running. IBM does try to obfuscate the information provided by using the name of an OS long discontinued (OS/400) instead...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Not under consideration

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