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Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

New QSYS2 Table function : QSYS2.WRITER_INFO

Hello, I wanted to retrieve the list of all the writers present on my client's machine.I tried with the SQL table : QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS.SELECT * FROM TABLE (QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL ','*DEVD')) WHERE OBJATTRIBUTE in ('PRTLAN','PRTVRT','PR...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Submitted

Align "upgvios" (HMC command) with "viosupgrade" (VIOS command)

As all (Ansible) development work has now stopped on the ibm.power_vios collection it would be very helpful to align the capabilities / command line flags of the (HMC command) "upgvios" with those of the (VIOS command) "viosupgrade". In doing so, ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Add issuer certificate serial number in qsys2.certificate_info and QycuRetrieveCertificateInfo API

In the DCM GUI, the hierarchy view provides the certification chain: the authority (one or more) + the client/server certificate. However, there is no solution for finding this link using code: The qsys2.certificate_info SQL service and the QycuRe...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

HMC V11 should support to add new zip-file with collected service data from HMC UI to an existing IBM case

HMC V11 now supports collection and upload of service event data like VIOS snap, HMC debug files and saves them locally or upload automatically for a new case creation.If a case already exist, the HMC service Event menu should allow to add new col...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Submitted

Add an HTTP status code for SQL not found

When deploying a REST web service based on SQL queries, it is possible to specify an HTTP status code for success (200 by default) and another for error (500 by default). However, when reading datas by an SQL select and a WHERE clause (e.g., sele...
4 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Submitted

Add ability to open SQL scripts from github

Hello, We store a lot of our custom SQL scripts in Github nowadays, we would find it useful to have ability to open scripts from Github repository. Run SQL Scripts > File > Open > PC File / IFS Stream File / Source Physical File + Github ...
23 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Drop down lists to have a search function.

Currently, to find an item in the drop down lists in PowerVC, you have to look for the item that you need manually, there is no search function. In large environments with many projects and storage templates this becomes cumbersome. Having search ...
17 days ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

Dropdown lists to be sorted alphbetically

Currently the drop down lists in PowerVC appear to be sorted by the openstack object ID number. This is not very user friendly especially when there are a large number of items in the list. It would be much better if these lists were sorted alphab...
17 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Add to DCM the possibility of Post-Quantum Cryptography and also update version of OPENSSL to 3.50 for use it
17 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

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