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Add option to set IBM i Console Type in ASMI

Allow the IBM i Console type to be viewed and updated in the Advanced Service Management Interface (ASMI) on a POWER server. If viewing or changing to the Ops Console type, allow the selection of the Ethernet Adapter (NIC) location from the candid...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM 1 Future consideration

Support mapping MFA users to either local groups or LDAP/AD groups

Currently, each user must be added to PowerSC MFA. From a corp security perspective it would be more consistent and simpler to point to group membership to assign profiles and permissions. So instead of adding the 30 indivisual members of group XY...
about 2 years ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

AIX Live Kernel Update needs to fail out if the blackout period runs too long

Clients using Live Kernel Update need to see a message on the terminal during the blackout period in LKU that provides some useful information so they are not waiting for the blackout period to end when it is actually stuck and will not end succes...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add an API or similar option to an existing API to get all messages for a specified Job

Today if you need all messages for an ACTIVE Job you have the Joblog Message APIs, and if you extract the Exception Message Queue for the job you also have that msg queue. But in the context of a Scheduled Job that runs and has finished processing...
11 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 6 Not under consideration

provide "remove disk from configuration" operation in QYASSDMO

Please provide an operation to access "remove disk unit from configuration" via API QYASSDMO Use Case: we are using this API for several disk related operations (mainly adding disk storage to ASPs on running environments), but also want to reduce ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Future consideration

IBM i IWS Client: Add option to allow unknown tags in response

My company used the Integrated Web Services (IWS) Client tool wsdl2rpg.sh to generate a *SRVPGM that we are using in production to consume a vendor partner's web service. Every few months the vendor releases enhancements to their web service, whic...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Include the Message File and library in the QUSEC (ERRC0100 or ERRC0200) when returning messages from APIs

Today, when the QUSEC struct is passed to an API, the MSGID and MSGDTA values are returned. However the Message File from which the message was retrieved/sent is not provided. This causes an issue with messages such as GUI0002 or SQLxxxx that do n...
11 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

Apache Client Certificate authentication when using proxy

We need to have Client Certificate Authentication (mTLS) on the Apache server in the proxy settings.According to your support as described in the Support case ID it's not possible. Use Case: We need to have Client Certificate Authentication (calle...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Not under consideration

updateios breaks the update due to network disruption

You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS011570960Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.4.10 on top of his system 3.1.3.14.During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to network dis...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

HMC GUI Refresh-Button f?r alle LPAR

LPAR Remote-Restart-Status aktualisierensiehe TS005093069
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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