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Make chdev aware of third party volume managers using disk devices.

Recently we've had a major incident in one of our biggest customers involving Oracle ASM disks that are virtualized using dual VIOS and vscsi. In one of the VIOS, PVIDs were assigned on disks already in use by Oracle ASM running in a client LPAR. ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Local Internet Address Selection on EE SNA/IP APPC Controller Options

on CRTCTLAPPC or CHGCTLAPPC, Link type*HPRIP; have need to be able to specify parameter LCLINTNETA in a more dynamic/transparent method. Large Environments with hundreds of LPARs; dozens of controllers and multiple IP addresses on each system; are...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

Automate add ldap user id in /etc/security/user if id not in default krb5 auth_domain when user first logs in.

See Case number TS005500656.Ldap login fails anytime a ldap user in krb5 domain other than default domain attempts first time login. We have to manually add entry in /etc/security/user – for example:joesmith:auth_domain = “KRB.DOMN2.COM”Please aut...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Detect field length exceeding the original Array Length

IWS can easly publish an ILE RPG program as a web service. When using "detect fields length" IWS will limit array's rows rendered in Xml or Json using a special value expressed as a Binary number. Sometimes happens (usually because of program erro...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Implement a "News and Updates" function into the GUI

Implement a news and Updates function which would download the latest updates to a temporary folder on the PowerVC system, along with a file describing any of the latest news and usage tips for customers. One purpose of this is to promote the inst...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Idea new DB2 for i Command

Idea-new command in SQL- similar to CPYTBLRECF or DUPTBLRECF: command would provide a function to copy selected records between tables either fixed record and field lengths or variable only check command would validate same record/field lengths wi...
11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Allow default setting of 'home' and 'shell' user attributes

Some customers will have their system's users defined remotely through LDAP or a similar module; these users might be defined on Windows AD, for example. Although typically there should be the ability to set a user's home directory and shell on th...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

include MAN pages for SAMBA PTF

since SAMBA support is installed using the open source toolset, it would be most helpful for the MAN pages to be included. Use Case: since manpages are supported with opensource installed, having the man pages will help if configuration help is ne...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Allow rename of certificate in DCM

When installing a new certificate I need to reassign all applications to this certificate which could be avoided by renaming the certificate. Please provide a rename certificate function (or even a replace during import) like it exists in IKEYMAN....
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

We havWe have a need to enlarge Number of bytes in a record which is currently set to a max value of 32766 bytes.e a need to enlarge Number of bytes in a record which is currently set to a max value of 32766 bytes.

We have a need to enlarge Number of bytes in a record which is currently set to a max value of 32766 bytes. As currently most of DB are support for more that 32766bytes no. Should be enhance the limitation to support for other platform as well.
11 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration