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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...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

AIX Unicode Regular Expression Support

IBM locale definitions were used to build all locale objects until 2003, when the Unicode Consortium developed the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) for building new UTF-8 locales. Those IBM defined locales (e.g IBM legacy locales) were named l...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

confusing behavior of LPM during inspections max_xfer_size

confusing behavior of LPM during inspections max_xfer_size : I can create on system "A" lpar "X" (and run it) with max_xfer_size larger (on NPIV virtual FC adapter) then used by respective vios on physical FC adapter I can move this lpar by LPM to...
10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Live kenel update should support SMB

Live kernel update should support SMB clients.
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 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

NGINX on IBMi baisc authentication support for system profiles

IBM Apache HTTP server supports PasswdFile %%SYSTEM%% for basic authentication. Would be great if Nginx on IBMi basic authentication also had support this
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

Add keep alive for Service Entry Point port

Add a keep alive to the service entry point preferences so that 3825 is not timed out. Use Case: In this scenario, the IBM i has keep alive for ports 8475 and 8476. The debug job seems to be staying alive with the login keep alive action, but the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

VIO device naming convention after LPM (vfchostX)

See case TS002260514:LPM/HMC does mess up the AIX device names on target VIOS.Especially if using the "vios-virtual-slot-number" on the target VIOSs i would assume the device naming is the same on both. But it is not as we know.
over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

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

ACS - allow to select viewer program for spooled/IFS files

When in the spooled or IFS file window. selecting CTRL-W or "view only" uses (windows in my case) the default file association program for viewing files. Use Case: please add to preferences menu ability to choose the default viewing program.being ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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