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Follow up for CVE-2024-27275 and ACS - > Database Maintenance with Function Usage options

With the recent changes to restrict *PUBLIC from *USE to *EXCLUDE in regards to files created in QRECOVERY for db administration tasks like reorganizing tables (physical files), table alters and index rebuilds, would it be possible with the except...
10 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Enable per-UID network routing like iptables

In most if not all Linux distributions, iptables is used for network routing. IPTables enables routing per UID like so: sudo ip rule add uidrange 1001-1001 table user_wlp sudo ip route add default via 192.168.53.14 table user_wlp This will set the...
10 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Give the possibility to use CREATE TYPE statement

Add unique constraint on a field. For example : Create a weakly typed distinct type named BONUS that is based on an INTEGER data type and represents a percentage which cannot exceed 100. CREATE TYPE BONUS AS INTEGER WITH WEAK TYPE RULES CHECK(VALU...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Security: Add to user configuration option to log in only from selected IP address

Currently, HMC does not allow you to restrict a user's login to a selected IP address. Such an option is available in SSH however it cannot be used on the HMC console. Currently, it is possible to restrict SSH logins (all of them) using the firewa...
8 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add a flag to HMC CLI commands to display attribute names inline with attributes when using -F filter on atributes (similiar to --header)

When scripting on HMC CLI you have basically two options for filtering attributes. For example 1. lshmcusr | grep $USER name=dummy,taskrole=hmcoperator,description='Dummy User',pwage=30,resourcerole=ALL:,authentication_type=local,remote_webui_acce...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Return previous functionality to manage rw / read-only on virtual media library iso's from the GUI.

HMC users managing the virtual media library from the GUI were impacted when this functionality was removed.
12 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Seperating Access to Profile Editor

Currently there is one option to give an user rw rights. For all custom profiles or none. We have the need to be more granular. For instance: seperate it by operating system seperte it within an Operating system (by LPAR or hostname)
about 2 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

%elem on enum

I would like to define the size of my dim array depending on the number of elements of my enum. Example : dcl-enum my_enum qualified; value1 const('1'); value2 const('2'); end-enum; dcl-s my_array char(1) dim(%elem(my_enum));
4 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to execute a custom AcsConfig.properties in a specific folder when calling acsbundle.jar

I have to deploy ACS in a customer Citrix environnement, with different categories of user and with specific needs (limited access to IFS folders, no SQL client connections for just one category, ...).My intent would be to create as many AcsConfig...
4 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Review multithread capability for OS commands

In these days where access to the IBM is no longer restricted to 5250 sessions, batch jobs etc., the usage of multithreaded applications is becoming more prevalent. This includes, but is not limited to, PASE & SSH. Whilst those environments ca...
10 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

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