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Request an alternate SMTP Banner for native mail server

When using native SMTP services to send mail from our ERP application, we have SMTP bound to a it's own IP address. That IP address and name resides in the local host table. However, when using DNS tools to validate the server on the Internet, a w...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

Allow multiple "system" reply lists

The system reply list is very useful for supplying automatic responses to messages, but occasionally a certain reply is only valid for a certain purpose, and not safe to set globally. Please create a QAQQINI setting that overrides the "system" rep...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

Trigger NPIV disk config validation for LPM from HMC GUI

Validation of NPIV disk level configuration for LPM is described here -- (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Power%20Systems/page/NPIV%20storage%20validation%20options%20for%20Live%20Partition%20Mobility) Curren...
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Please integrate Infinidat support into PowerVC

Please integrate Infinidat support into PowerVC. Looks like Infinidat already supports OpenStack Cinder. So it should be easy to do. https://support.infinidat.com/hc/en-us/articles/202403961-Configuring-InfiniBox-volume-driver-for-OpenStack-Cinder
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

VMs TAGs for VMs for DRO

During discussions, it came up as a request for improvement to be able to handle TAGs to classify DRO operations in PowerVC. For example, define a TAGS of virtual machines for "development" or "SAP" and in this case PowerVC based on these TAGs cla...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Allow help to work on different source language versions

The help system provided with RDi is shipped with the most recent version of each source langauge. Currently, for RPGLE, it is v7.2. Please develop the ability to cause all help for the O/S and source languages to show information relevant to a us...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Add Lynx Browser to YUM repository

Please, add Lynx Browser to the IBM i YUM repository Use Case: Besides we can browse the web using Lynx, we can also convert HTML to TXT data using the "-dump" option.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

In RDi, remove invalid error messages when using a continuation F-Spec line.

Please remove restrictions in RDI when editing code for a RPG program. The problem occurs for the F-Spec continuation line that RDi rejects. The specification works normally in SEU. The F-Spec and I-SPec are used to rename a record format and fiel...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Is a defect

Powervc - Migrate IMAGE from one SSP cluster to another

We use PowerVC to deploy all our AIX servers. The datastore provider of rootvg is always a SSP LU. We have four SSP clusters (test, developent, production, critical) and we need to maintain the same AIX image on all SSP clusters. We need to copy a...
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Add separate IPv6 statistics for the SEA device, so that statistical monitoring commands can report

During the investigation of an IPv6 related Case on guest LPARs of VIOS, Support noted that investigation of the issue would have been simplified if the SEA device on the VIOS reported IPv6 statistics in addition to IPv4 statistics. Implementing t...
about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

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