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When enabling MFA for user in powervc we would like to have the QR code printed on the screen not by email

Powervc users we use have no email address configured (for security reasons) We would like to have the QR code or a passkey presented on the powervc CLI not by email to the specific user.
about 10 hours ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

IBM Navigator for i - Disable multiple user profiles over multiple systems/LPAR's.

If a person leaves the company, it would be useful to disable the userprofile over multiple systems/LPAR's, instead of deleting the user profile.
1 day ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Submitted

Support for SFP mix in 4-port adapter EN24, EN26

Actual 4-port adapters EN24 and EN26 don't support mix of SFP. Many customers require to split management network usually based on 1Gb Ethernet from 10/25Gb access ports. 4-port adapters are ideal product to have dual VIO setup with pairs of these...
2 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

Provide a filter for ACS: export configuration.

You may want to exclude development and test partitions when distributing the ACS configuration to 'the floor'.
2 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Provide ibmi-oss Python Versions greater than 3.9, required for Ansible Control Nodes >= 2.16 on the IBM i

Ansible-Core 2.15 went out of support on 11/2024.The newer levels of Ansible-Core, >= 2.16, require either Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 or greater in order to run on the IBM i as a control node.See this link:=========================================...
3 days ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

GENERATED_SPREADSHEET with kerberos and password *NONE

In an evironments with kerberos and users with password *NONE the scalar funcion doesn't work (MSGSY0271), it would be great if this limitation didn`t exist.
6 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted
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GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
6 months ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Under review

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

ACS > run sql scripts allow reconnect to change profile

In ACS > run sql scripts > reconnect > default to current user but, allow the user profile to be changed for the connection. This will help with testing out different sql scripts with different profiles.
13 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
22 days ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

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