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SMB (CIFS)

We have been using CIFS (SMB) over a decade. We have been told by IBM that the CIFS driver is version 0.12 and there is no ETA to update to the driver to new version. CIFS is heavily used at the Bank. We have many scripts, processes and applicatio...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

netmon.cf: ICMP request SRC-address

Description: Since updating cluster installations from AIX V7.1 TL3 SP5/PowerHA V7. 1.3 SP3 to AIX V7.1 TL4 SP2/PowerHA V7.1.3 SP5 we observe a different behaviour in the "ping" tests, originating from netmon.cf. On the older release only the sour...
about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

iseries managementpak for SCOM

provide a managementpak for integration in microsoft systemcenter operation manager (SCOM).it would be a great benefit for iseries to provide a basic functionality for SCOM integration. Use Case: provide a managementpak for integration in microsof...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

secldapclntd should respect LDAP_OPT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL and related settings

The IBM Directory Server idsldap libraries support the following environment variables: LDAP_OPT_SSL_CIPHER LDAP_OPT_SSL_CIPHER_EX LDAP_OPT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL However, secldapclntd does not. It would be helpful for secldapclntd to respect these o...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Configure FTPS using port 990 and FTP with port 20

It is useful from security preceptive to use FTP secure. As our customer wants to configure this FTPS with port 990 to transfer that data from AS400 to AIX.
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

PowerVC and 3PAR configuration

I would like from PowerVC get the actual configuration (NPIV) from 3PAR, such as exports, hostports, redundancy within storage nodes.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Add EKM component back into newer versions of Java, for hardware based encryption

In Java 5, delivered as part of IBM i, there was an EKM component used for hardware based encryption of backup tapes, included at no additional charge. We use this for ALL of our IBM i backups for the last 10 years, as it was a 'set it and forget ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Not under consideration

Complete QSQGNDDL API Output

The QSQGNDDL API does not return the DATFMT / TIMFMT options that can be specified on a CREATE PROCEDURE statement when using the API to generate the source for a previously supported stored procedure. Use Case: For example: On the original create...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Creating virtual ports as a way to bypass physical port level validation

Live Partition Mobility for NPIV clients requires that both (active and inactive) WWPNs for each virtual Fibre Channel adapter must have been zoned to the exact same storage port WWN on the switch/SAN and must have been defined to the storage arra...
over 5 years ago in PowerVM 0 Not under consideration

Change the calculated storage size returned by SNMP to be more in line with what the query (QSYS2.ASP_INFO) and WRKSYSSTS return

SNMP shows the following: .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.1 StorageAllocationUnits = 32768 .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.1 StorageSize = 315593355 .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.1 StorageUsed = 180845384 The math against those numbers gives me Total Storage = 9631.144...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Not under consideration

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