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Return the Utility CoD Processor Capacity Setting - Unreported processor minutes.

When using Utility CoD processors it is important to know how may minutes have been used.
20 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Support for disable a device across reboots, FC-adapter.

VIO server (and std AIX servers), when boot is on local nvme and additional disk (lets say appsvg) in in SAN storage. The extra disk in "appsvg" is used for verification/troubleshooting plus as extra space for various reasons. When one do an alt_d...
20 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Policy Based Replication (aka PBR) is required at version 8.7.0.1, and we would like it to be adjusted as an option vs requiring the undoing of Global Mirror Change Volumes (aka GMCV) replication.

MEDHOST is currently configured with an SVC that has 9 nodes (one being a hot spare) and 4 IO groups clustered as a single storage pool with a hot spare node. We are currently experiencing the BEST performance and reliability using this configurat...
21 days ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Not under consideration

When dynamically moving processors from one lpar to another snmp no longer reports accurate processor information

When dynamically moving processors from one lpar to another snmp no longer reports accurate processor information: INT MAX for moved processors confuses reports: hrProcessorLoad.1 = 2147483647 Also snmp does not match processor sequential number t...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Please add for REST API token based authentication

Security tools and hardening activities usually configure password expiration for accounts and then REST API call will stop working. Using separate tokens for REST API prevent for automation tools stop working.
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Add Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

IBM i 7.4 introduced APIs that support Native Digital Certificate Management, I would like IBM to build on this a deliver a natively supported ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) protocol support to allow IBM i to automatically req...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings)

Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings) e. g. chpcm -l "location" to reflect where the managed system resides and to be able to achieve more granularity, when it comes to sustainability ...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade OpenSSH on AIX to 9.6 or above.

I am getting dinged about CVE-2023-51385 from Qualys. AIX has this notice: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7125640 Now, IBM may or may not have done a dandy job of stopping the vulnerability. However if they just patch an existing version o...
10 months ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

SRCSTMF parameter for CRTDSPF

As we are using more and more modern ways and tools to develop our software, it really hurts that one has to copy DDS sources to a member in a temporary source physical file in order to be able to create a display file. I’m pretty sure that it wou...
10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Submitted

CMC alerting into e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, etc. .

CMC notifies customers by e-mail. However, most customers use a central monitoring application such as Nagios, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, etc.. CMC alerts should also be sent to the customer's monitoring application. Which the IT-Operations team is mo...
10 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted