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SAVSYS show progress

Some customers use an USB thumb drive to run a SAVSYS on a monthly base. With slow USB sticks this process needs 15+ minutes without any progress display. Some customers are curious if it is still working. Use Case: show progress on save to avoid ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Future consideration

Add auditing to successful authentications

IBM i records failed authentications, which appear in the audit journal entries, but is missing a unified entry type for successful authentications. From an auditing perspective, this makes it hard to comprehensively track and report on successful...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

Change the performance adjuster algorithm

The performance adjuster algorithm looks only if the pool is paging but doesn't care if it has already free memory. This causes sometimes that a pool start stealing a lot of memory without using it. The algorithm should look at the unallocated mem...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

IBM PowerSC should provide an option to mark a failed compliance rule as exception in the GUI

The IBM PowerSC Compliance Automation feature allows users to run compliance check. Once the check is complete, the GUI shows the result and displays the failed rules. If at least 1 rule has failed then the compliance status of the LPAR is shown a...
8 months ago in PowerSC 2 Planned for future release

ACS - Run SQL Scripts disable "insert from examples" for selected users

We have been using Access Client Solutions for several years. Mainly the 5250 sessions are used by our users, but there are also selected power users who are authorized to use the function "Run SQL Scripts".For this users it is also possible to us...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Include snapshot space usage in resource usage for a project.

Currently PowerVC doesn't include the space usage of snapshots in the resource usage (Volume Storage) for a project. This space usage is effectively hidden from the project. It would be useful for this to be included as either part of the overall ...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Expiry dates for snapshots

We take snapshots for application and OS work which we only wish to keep for a set period of time, usually two weeks. Currently we need to utilise manual processes outside of PowerVC to track when to delete a snapshot eg: calendar reminders, reque...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

add extra detail to the view qsys2.AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART_INFO

for the AUDIT_JOURNAL_DATA_MART_INFO view please add a column for the number of records in the data mart file.
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Allow RDi to use saved ACS configuration.

RDi includes Access Client Solutions (ACS), but it doesn't allow you to use a saved configuration (e.g. 5250 .HOD file). This limits the usefulness of this tool
over 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

Improved method to securely verify AIX filesets and install images

Currently, the only way to securely verify AIX filesets is during an install operation with the chsignpolicy command set, but even this requires installing the bos.rte.install and bos.dsc filesets in order to obtain the fileset signatures. AIX sho...
over 1 year ago in AIX 3 Future consideration