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aixpert

System: aixpertActor : Need new feature to allow granularity of user for hardening parameters. Description : This feature will help in compliance check.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Integration with 3rd Party SDN

Integration with 3rd Party SDN to support Network virtualistaion
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Auto complete when using procedure wizard

When creating a procedure using the RPG procedure wizard,(the DSpec and the Java Method behave the same) auto complete does not function for the input or the output params. If I click on the defined like the defined varaiables are not available. T...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

TNCPM Referrer persistent logging and OS discovery

When the VIOS IP Referrer is installed and configured to monitor new IP (detected by SVM over SEA), it inform "admin" by email of the newly detected IP which do not have an agent running. Adding the IP to the Policy Server, and visibility in the P...
almost 7 years ago in PowerSC 1 Not under consideration

PowerHA IP storage support for IBM i

Add support for IP storage in PowerHA Use Case: With a proposed migration from FC to IP based storage PowerHA requires support of IP storage technologies.
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 7 Not under consideration

Launch LPEX editor from QSHELL terminal

Using RSE. It would be cool if I could find a way to launch LPEX editor when operating in QSHELL shell terminal. I know I can open IFS directories and perform the operation there. But having that option in QSHELL terminal is desirable. Use Case: R...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Is a defect

Complete 4096 Byte NWSSTG support for 8202-E4D

Power7 servers have support for 4096 byte NWSSTG objects (hosted disks) but it is not quite complete. Oh so very close!! It is complete for 770 (Enterprise) class servers in 780 firmware. Sadly, however, for the entry level, E4D servers it is not ...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to disable the Program Verifier

Provide some option to completely disable the Program Verifier. The verification is not a background task like a search, it is uninterruptable and often takes a very long time, during which nothing else can be done. The verification cannot be canc...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Support of dlpar operations on processor while emstat is running

As discussed in the defect SW402509 (CMVC ID - 1034622), Currently, emstat doesnt support dlpar operations on processor. Please provide support of dlapr operations on processor while emstat process is running.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement request in yacc compiler for ipfilter to support more than 68 ippools

Using IP Filter: v4.1.13 (480) on AIX 6.1, 7.1 and 7.2, I observed that creating an ippool with more than 68 ip addresses in it doesn't work as expected. It doesn't give any error while creating an ippool, but when we try to list the pools using i...
about 7 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration