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    ADD in QSYS2 TABLES a new table to know wich programms use an exported porcedure from à service program

    Hi, QSYS2 functions and tables allow you to know:- What procedures are exported by our service programs.- What programs use our service programs. But it is not possible to know which programs use which exported procedure. This is a pity because it...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

    proxy support for emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix

    Corporate AIX customers often use a proxy in their company to control internet access. However, there is no proxy support in emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix.These commands only work with direct internet access. To make these new commands ...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

    The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC.

    The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC. This should also be available for the entire managed system. The energy costs calculated down to the work performed is becoming increasingly important for customers when th...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add capability of defining subgroups for Compliance page

    For usability in large environments it would behelpfull to be able to create subgroups on the Compliance page. Here an example: Group: SAP - Sub-Group: SAP-Test SAP-QA SAP-Prod
    9 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

    Suggested versions of IBM i support for new Power Systems

    Power 8 (generally) supports IBM i 7.1-7.4 Power 9 (generally) supports IBM i 7.2-7.5 Power 10 supports IBM i 7.3-7.6 (and, if the pattern holds) likely not iNext Power 11 supports IBM i 7.4-7.6 and likely iNext I propose that new systems should s...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Improve AIX Live Kernel Update network security for a cloud

    Currently, AIX LKU requires the AIX partition to be able to access the HMC (or PowerVC) and login with an account that has sufficiently high privileges to create and delete partitions, network adapters etc. In our setup, as cloud provider, the cus...
    4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    E-mail about CMC socket subscription expiring lacks vital information

    There are e-mails being sent out by CMC to warn us about expiring CMC socket subscriptions. We run into the problem that the e-mail lacks vital information to take immediate action. The e-mail currenty lists the number of sockets that are affected...
    4 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

    Provide Exit Point support for SSHD Daemon

    We would like to utilize the standard IBM exit point program interfaces QIBM_QZDA* to provide control for the SSHD (SSH Daemon) provided with OpenSSH 5733-SC1. This protocol should have the same support available as Telnet, ODBC and FTP protocols ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Under review

    Allow brms restore files without member

    The operating system natively allows you to restore *FILE objects without members using the FILEMBR((*ALL *NONE)) parameter with the RSTOBJ command, which is very useful when, for example, you need to align test environments and are not interested...
    4 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    lsdev should show the correct storage type

    lsdev shows for an FS9500 storage (and also other newer storages) still "IBM 2076 FC disk", which is very old and missleading. The command should give the correct type, for example 4666 for an FS9500 storage. $ lsdev -Cl hdisk420hdisk420 Available...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

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