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VIOS Logging to a syslog endpoint

We are being pressured by our security teams to provide logging from the VIOs to a syslog endpoint that feeds splunk.We have a config from support that would allow this, but it has to be implemented via the oem_setup environment and is not support...
11 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

Add support for mounting subdirectories to smbc

Many customers want to mount a subdirectory in a share directly onto AIX rather than having to navigate to it from the top of the share. Not having this feature makes integrating smbc into cstuomers' business environments more cumbersome. Other SM...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Add noexec option for JFS2 filesystem

AIX JFS2 is missing noexec option to prevent executing binary files from a JFS2 filesystem. Some filesystems are just data system without any executables and according to security requirements the execution of unwanted executables must be prevented.
5 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Smaller DHCP segments for private network

The possibility to create one owns DHCP ranges for private network is great, but for easier initial management then we would like smalleer segments. This would also benefit in troubleshooting network/systems connection issues and or complex networ...
10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

Implement lsmpio -q volume name implementation based on lsmpio_map in AIX 7.2

AIX 7.3 TL1 implements an option to extract the volume name identification (and other fields) for lsmpio -q based on an hdisk attribute called lsmpio_map (AIX-I-273) We have some customers requesting this enhancement to be backported also in AIX 7...
8 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Show profile will be disabled msg even for non-valid profiles.

OS 7.5 changed to provide the same error message when signing on for the case where a userid is not defined or a userid is valid but the password is wrong. This was intended to not 'leak' information to a bad actor that they guessed a valid userid...
6 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

Add OBJECT ATTRIBUTE (PF, PRTF, LF, C, RPGLE, etc.) to the object selection for QGYOLOBJ API.

Using only the object type (*FILE, *PGM, etc) with QGYOLOBJ is okay, but in the specific case of object type *FILE, there are so many variations, DDM, PF, LF, PRTF, and so on. Often when you specify *FILE you only want one of those subtypes or obj...
6 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

Create specific and restricted permissions to run run lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all frames

Create specific and restricted permissions to run lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all frames. Actually, user shall have activate partition to run these commands. We would like separate activate partition from running lsmemopt/ optmem commands on all ...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Under review

PEP 2.0 - Ability to disable/offline resources(CPU/Memory)

Currently PEP 2.0 activates all installed resources. This creates lot of issues with our capacity management, performance monitoring and high availability. Please have an option to disable specific number of CPU and memory on the frame.
about 3 years ago in Cloud Management Console 4 Under review

ESS License Keys change EXPDATE from YYYY-MM-DD to users System date

This would allow the customer to change the way keys are downloaded and applied, especially since this is the way license keys are being supplied/distribuited. Otherwise the user has to hand apply the license keys(changing the date) instead of usi...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review