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HMC ESA / Call Home Setup using ALIAS instead of IP Address as SSL Proxy

System: HMCActor: Client needs additional feature Client is using HMC to manage Power Server with multiple AIX Partitions. Since this is a production server, they wanted to setup the ESA/Call home feature. Description:In the ESA / Call home setup,...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Add prefered site option to the tiebreaker solution in PHA

When using the current tiebreaker solution for split brain protection then it's a random based decision which site will win. For some setup it would be helpful if there would be an option to define a preferred site.
almost 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

Add Authorization list to IFS Security

If we could add authorization list to IFS security then we could tighten security down by the list and not have to specify a list of users to that object/directory. This is extremely helpful when you have a file share available to everyone (no not...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 4 Functionality already exists

Integrate Configuration Health Check with Firmware and HMC Code Update Process

This marketing field requirement requests a fundamental changeto the way IBM delivers firmware and HMC code updates tocustomers. Currently warnings and specific details about theinstallation of a newly released firmware and HMC code areprovided th...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

FortiSIEM for IBM i 7.3

We are planning to use SIEM to monitor our system and they need to connect to our IBM i Operating system. Use Case: FortiSIEM will be used to monitor all servers on our network.
about 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Not under consideration

Auto Generate file open for RPG IV

I can generate Procedures, D-Specs, and Java Method Calls from a right click menu in the LPEX editor for RPG. It would be useful if I could generate file opens as well. It should work like this: 1. Right click in the editor, and select New -> F...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Add conversion to/from RPG Date/Time/Timestamp and Axis types in WebService client (wsdl2rpg.sh)

Wsdl2rpg.sh generates a web service client based on Axis, and an RPG wrapper.This RPG wrapper provides the classical C structure for the RPG variable types Date, Time and Timestamp : D xsd_tm DS align qualified template D sec 10i 0 D* seconds afte...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Not under consideration

The QMHQRDQD API should not update the Object Last Used Date.

Currently if you call QMHQRDQD in an RPG or whatever program, that API updates the *DTAQ object's Last-Used Date with the current date. What if QUSROBJD updated the last used date? It doesn't because it should not. The QMHQRDQD API should not upda...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

TN5250 and IBM i Access for Web support for SAML Authentication

System: IBM i Access for WebActor: Web users of IBM i Applications IBM i Access for Web is a Websphere application that provides 5250 web emulation for IBM i hosted applications. It already provides support (via Websphere) for Kerberos SSO, but it...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

More than one statement per line

It would be nice to be able to put more than one statement per line in free format separated by the Semicolon. If X = 1; X=2; Else; X=3; EndIf; Would be an easy solution without changing the whole language to be similar to what other languages com...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration