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AIX support for NTP-NTS (Network Time Security)

We want to secure our ntp time synchronisation with NTS (Network Time Security) as the alternatives are insecure (autokey) or complex to manage (machine individual key setup). Maybe you can add NTPsec (ntpd fork) or chrony as additional package?ht...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

shared dual-cec configuration

Let's take this scenario: we have two datacenters, each one has the same number of POWER servers managed by VMRM. We have two KSYS consoles - one in each datacenter. Basic idea is, when 1 DC acts as primary, while 2nd as standby. I'd like to have ...
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Future consideration

Add the table's column text description to the Outline view.

When viewing a program's opened files/columns, within the Outline view (under the "File" category), it would be very convenient to be able to see each column text description, defined by the given table. This could show up directly within the Outl...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Automatically display a PDF document on the screen after creating the PDF in an interactive 5250 session.

Due to environmental restrictions namely security, we cannot give the users in the plant access to the IFS to see and display PDF documents. What we need here and this is required for many reports, is to somehow open the PDF programmatically from ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Ctrl / behavior enhancement request

I would like to request an enhancement to RDi for the Ctrl / and Ctrl \ key functions so that they either perform the "new" way which is consistent with Eclispe, or, the keystrokes perform as they did prior to the installation of Version: 9.6.0.12...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Future consideration

Possibility to store SSH key file in HMC user profile

Please create a possibility to store a SSH key file (id_rsa.pub) in the HMC user profile. Adding the key via SSH always causes problems on the HMC and takes several attempts until it finally works. In IBM storage systems it is also possible and wo...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

Add wrapper to /usr/opt/rpm/bin/patch

GNU patch which is delivered as part of rpm.rte has a known bug on AIX. It dumps core with out of memory error in some case if nofiles is set to -1 or unlimited. Please add a wrapper to check if nofiles is set to unlimited and if it is, set ulimit...
10 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Command saveupgdata check space only AIX/LINUX - df

Now command savupgdata only works with sftp server where command df is avalible.I have windows sftp and this command - df not give a free space from my server sftp works in windows. Currently, it is not possible to send data to servers other than ...
10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

make an official guide to installing and configuring oracle performance on aix in several languages

make an official guide to installing and configuring oracle performance on aix in several languages beacause it not clear in oracle website
about 1 year ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Port OpenSCAP to AIX

Please port OpenSCAP to AIX either native or RPM package format will do. https://www.open-scap.org/
over 7 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

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