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Option to log stdout/stderr with swrole

One of the advantages of sudo over AIX RBAC is ability to record commands and their stdout/stderr - see logio in sudo documentations and sudoreplay. We need similar functionality in AIX RBAC. When user activates a role using swrole and the logging...
5 months ago in AIX 1 Submitted

On VIOS vscsi configuration it should be used the existing SVC host mapping during PowerVC VM deployment.

In one configuration, PowerVC order toward SVC to create new host definition even if it is the vscsi configuration.I think the mkvhost command should not be executed in a vscsi configuration during PowerVC VM deployment. Detailed content document ...
10 months ago in PowerVC 2 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

vNIC Backing device Acive and Passive Port balancing

vNIC use multiple backing devices with one active port and multiple backup ports. PowerVC can deploy redundant vnic. But there is no control to specify the active and passive backing device. Neither PowerVC alternates between the backing devices t...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

IWS web services PJ QZRCSRVS additional logging

Currently there is no easy way to correlate a PJ QZRCSRVS to a specific web service. Enhance web services identification by adding additional logging to PJ QZRCSRVS. Add a message in the job log with the IWS Web Server and Web Service information ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

A way for PowerVC 2.0 to purge data out of logs by date/time and status.

A way to purge data from the logs in the PowerVC 2.0 GUI with a certain status for a specific date/time.
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

Third party URL for RPM repositories in "Manage Open Source Packages" in ACS

The new feature in ACS for managing open source RPM packages is great. However, it only covers IBM delivered RPM from the official IBM site. There is many other open source packages out there used today as building blocks for modern applications ....
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 6 Not under consideration

Possibility to configure the * ADMIN4 instance with SSL

Possibility to configure the * ADMIN4 instance with SSL volume_up Use Case: In GUI
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Command / SQL service to retrieve specific IPL attributes

Increased use of flash copy requires changes to IPL attributes before the copy has been made, to control the behaviour of the cloned partition. These changes need to be reverted on the parent partition to avoid unwanted behaviour at IPL. Althoug...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Future consideration

Create/Amend filters using search results

When I access PDM's "find string" from within RDP (or through a remote search), I would like to add the results into a new/existing member filter, object filter and/or iProject folder with a click of a context option. This will allow large filters...
over 11 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

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