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Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Submitted

lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Quick Enable/Disable user profiles

This would be a quick function for admins/support personnel to use to enable/disable an account without invoking CHGUSRPRF or Option 2 STATUS(*DISABLED). Create an Option 27 and 28 to Enable/Disable user profile from the WRKUSRPRF screen.
16 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Integrate AIX software repositories (including Toolbox) with RHEL Satellite for central management of both operating systems.

We use the RHEL satellite (and Foreman) for all Linux hosts, why not integrate also AIX here and then maybe also use the insights software for monitoring and reporting.
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. Furthermore It would be nice to have a possibility to assign or replace certifica...
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
9 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

PowerSC MFA on HMC Emulator Console Port 2300 & 2301

We have implemented PowerSC MFA on HMCs but it is only supported for HTTPS (GUI) and SSH Ports, while the Emulator Console Ports 2300 & 2301 don't support MFA. That means that we must also have additional local users on the HMCs, that reduces ...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add capability of defining subgroups for Compliance page

For usability in large environments it would behelpfull to be able to create subgroups on the Compliance page. Here an example: Group: SAP - Sub-Group: SAP-Test SAP-QA SAP-Prod
4 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Allow finer grained 'Adopt Authority'

This idea will allow ISVs and other to help close security exposures related to programs that adopt authority. Currently a program can be set to USRPRF(*OWNER) to have it adopt authority. Different programs within an application have needs for acc...
21 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Copy service definition in IWS

Provide the ability to copy an existing service definition, so you don't have to go through all the steps to define a new service when a similar service already exists.
21 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted