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Handle VMs removed from HMC but not VMRDR

VMs removed from the HMC need to be removed automatically from KSYS or a warning displayed about the "orphaned" VM during the discover process.
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager Submitted

Recommend to enhance iASP HA solution and user prompting to improve user experience

Recommend to enhance iASP solution and user prompting to improve user experience
6 months ago in PowerHA for AIX Submitted

Restore useful links to IBM i Planning and remove worthless generic site.

The planning site underneath https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=irs-related-information-installing-upgrading-deleting-i-related-software called "IBM Planning" could not possibly be any more useless. It should go to the good site. The good sit...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Documentation Submitted

AIX 7.2/7.3 EFS PCI DSS v4.0 Compliance

PCI DSS v4.0 requires sensitive customer data to be encrypted at the file level. File security and volume level encryption are not sufficient. We believe EFS meets the PCI 4.0 standard but it is not documented anywhere.
over 1 year ago in AIX Submitted

chdef should be able to set queue_depth defaults for iscsi non-mpio disks.

We use ISCSI disks and do not have multi path storage available to us, so we would need to set the queue_depth for all newly created iscsi disks. However, we have to use chdev to accomplish this manually for each disk instead of just setting the d...
about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

CMC don't provide any possibility to see number of sockets used vs purchased in subscription.

Would be great to see in CMC number of sockets used and number of sockets purchased by subscription. Such data should be accessible also via REST API
over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

Modify ulimit to display the lesser of nproc or maxuproc

As per this site https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-ulimit-and-maxuproc ulimit was recently changed to display a more accurate value than "unlimited" when nproc is -1, and instead show the maxuproc that provides the real limit.This helps provid...
over 1 year ago in AIX Submitted

IBM-AWS Innovathon 2025 - Late payment of healthcare claims is a persistent challenge, leading to financial penalties for payors—especially in U.S. states with strict mandates and high interest rates for delayed payments.

Proposed AI-Based Solution: Real-Time Claims Inventory Management for late Payment Reduction. Objective: Minimize late payment interest by proactively identifying and prioritizing claims at risk of breaching timely payment thresholds. Key Features...
7 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Health Care Submitted

Enterprise Pools 2.0 Credit Consumption Calculator.

I propose the creation of a calculator to predict credit consumption. Currently, users of Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 can monitor credit consumption through the CMC console. However, there is no tool available that allows for the prediction of cred...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

API for getting thread id & thread name such as in command PRTJVMJOB *thread

For JVM users and ERP (such as M3 or others), the thread id inside JVM could be internal to software or dedicated tool. In this case, to investigate job performance such as idoctor or job watcher it is impossible to search a job or tasks with the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / JAVA Submitted