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

Add an wizard to configure the authorization to use bearer instead of basic
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Documentation 0 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 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.
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Submitted

SAML Intergration with CMC

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a standard for logging users into applications based on their identity in another context. This single sign-on (SSO) login standard has significant advantages over logging in using a username/password: ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 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.
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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.
about 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Submitted

Backport PCM FPIN congestion mechanism to AIX 7.2

We have noticed that in an environments with FPIN notifications enabled and high read rates and a larger storage throughput capacity that host ingestion capacity, the behaviour of AIX 7.3 and AIX 7.2 are quite different, leading in AIX 7.2 to scen...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

"enhance" capture lpar as template to actually include all properties of the lpar

Currently, vscsi storage (except for SSP) is omitted during capture. Including all storage from source lpar would make the feature do what it says on the tin.
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted