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Enhance multibos preview to check for available space in rootvg

Please enhance multibos so that the preview operation will perform some kind of "required space" calculation for physical partitions in rootvg.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under 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...
12 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 ...
12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Need enhancement on the new ACS 1.1.8.8 - there are some character that are not being displayed correctly

Both the reverse block (box) character and the ? are substitution characters when there isn't a matching character in the code page for the data stream. So, from a functional perspective the substitution characters have no meaning and should be ig...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

add the Julia language to the IBM i ecosystem

I discovered recently a project of portage of Julia language on Power platform. I would be very interested by a portage specific to the IBM i machines, with a DB2 for i connector optimized for this environment. The presence of this modern and high...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

I want better IBM i support for PowerSC

About the productI would like PowerSC to not require periodic restarts.If periodic restarts are required, please provide examples of cron settings in the documentation. About the introduction documentWe would like the "Configuring IBM PowerSC MFA ...
almost 2 years ago in PowerSC 4 Planned for future release

Prevent the ability to share the root

The root is a big reason why the IBM i can be compromised. Can we stop the sharing of the root and if someone must share the root then they need to use an override. if the root is shared already then remove that share and if someone needs to use i...
12 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

ACS - Support Defining Multiple System Configs for one Server

Right now you con only define one Configuration for a given system.It would be nice to have the ability to define multiple Configurations to a single system that have different settings like user name and what not. Use Case: I am doing work as a d...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

EIM Windows domain source mapping from CRTUSRPRF

On CRTUSRPRF we have the parameter EIMASSOC. This lets us create an EIM identifier and add the current system as a TARGET. Every new user that is created need to also have the windows domain as a SOURCE in order for single signon to work. This mea...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

Improve Dynamic Screen Manager API Documentation

While the online documentation for DSM APIs (Dynamic Screen Manager for IBM i) are complete, they are completely without context. The goal of DSM was to simplify dynamic screen creation, however, the documentation does not provide enough context t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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