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Add storage provider

I have customer interresting by VM recovery manager but it storage substysem is not supported. Actually he use a Huawei storage subsystem
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

aclput -R --ignoredirectory -i mycl /dir

I need to apply an AIXC ACL to the thousands of files in a directory tree as quickly as possible. The aclput -R command seems usable, but it also applies the ACL to the subdirectories found in the tree. As the acl is defined with rw-rw---- permiss...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Change the authentication service to not be in Brazil

Some customer are not allowed to have connection to some countries, for example when you connect to you CMC portal that is located in Franckurt Datacenter, you fisrt connect to https://blueid.powercmc.com/auth/sso for authentication, this service ...
3 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow the size of the rule pane within Rule Wizard to be more adjustable for visibility and ease of use.

This would be useful when managing rules within QRadar as this is the main medium for tuning. All QRadar users would benefit from this change as they would better be able to view all test definitions while being able to edit them at the same time....
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Enable Websphere http-server to serve bearer authorization with wizard assist

Add an wizard to configure the authorization to use bearer instead of basic
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

Provide option to bind SNMP agent to the Boot IP of the system/node.

If the SNMP service uses a dynamically assigned virtual IP, the reported data could be related to multiple systems/nodes instead of a single unique system/node because the virtual IP may be associated with multiple systems/nodes.
10 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Automatically address file issue on the QAS9PALEVT file reaching full

The maximum size has been reached for member QAS9PALEVT file QAS9PALEVT in library QSRVAGT.
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

HTTP logging of HTTP_GET_VERBOSE and HTTP_POST_VERBOSE

When consuming a web service using the SQL based HTTP_GET_VERBOSE and HTTP_POST_VERBOSE, it would be extremely helpful to get a full log of the HTTP communication to the web service much like the LIBHTTP tools allowed for. Currently there is a way...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Include snapshot space usage in resource usage for a project.

Currently PowerVC doesn't include the space usage of snapshots in the resource usage (Volume Storage) for a project. This space usage is effectively hidden from the project. It would be useful for this to be included as either part of the overall ...
4 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Will the compatibility with AIX7.2 and/or AIX 7.3 will be announced with the product PAM_HBAC (Host Based Access Control)

Hello, Will the compatibility with AIX7.2 and/or AIX 7.3 will be announced with the product PAM_HBAC (Host Based Access Control).At the moment, pam_hbac runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris (tested on Oracle Solaris 11 and Omnios) but not on AIX.
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted