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To be able to disable Banner Message on ASMI which displays server information. Case ref - TS018274886

We received a vulnerability relating to light http. Server banner present that identifies the server as lighttpd/1.4.41. lightttpd response is seen on the management network. Please see attachment. We want to be able to disable the Banner message ...
5 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Much like WatsonX code assistant for Z, we are looking for similar capabilities for the I to modernized and even convert RPG code to other languages.

To speed development, and help modernize the look and feel of our software to better serve our customers.
8 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

Split DBOpen exit point in new format

DBOpen Exit Point takes care of ANY database access, regardless what type. This results in performance problems. Severals performance tests show that from 100% DBOpen Acess apx. 95%-99% are coming from Native I/Os. This is from exit point technolo...
24 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

UUID datatype for IBMi

A UUID is a U niversally U nique Id entifier, meaning that these identifiers are unique over your whole DB; even better unique" across space and time". UUID's are stored in 128bit format and follow a standarized format ( rfc4122 ) This makes the t...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

There is a risk that the ethchan_config command may mistakenly change the IP address of enX interface.

Please Improve the specification of the ethchan_config command. ethchan_config should check the target device. The ethchan_config command can change the "netaddr" parameter of entX and set the address to ping of EtherChannel. However, the ethchan_...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
2 months ago in AIX 1 Under review

Allow for Synchronous Policy Based Replication (PBR) on IBM Storwize

With the recent version of IBM Storwize, metro mirror - synchronous replication - is no longer available for IBM i. This version allows for policy based replication (PBR) or policy based High-Availability (PBHA), both asynchronous. In order to get...
2 months ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Submitted

Addition of Journal Code/Entry type description table

I'd like to suggest adding a table to QSYS2 with the contents of the help text for Journal Codes and Journal Entry Types. If we were to combine this table with DISPLAY_JOURNAL it would provide a greater amount of context to queries against journals.
30 days ago in IBM i / Other 1 Submitted

Authority *SECADM and *ALLOBJ needed with RST command

Restoring Ifs objects using RST puts in the joblog a CPDA088 and a CPF9898 for each object restored. The messages text is: "THE OBJECT IDENTIFIED BY THE PRECEDING CPDA088 MESSAGE WAS RESTORED, BUT THE *RUNEXIT AND/OR *CRTRUNEXIT ATTRIBUTES WERE NO...
6 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

Why is this necessary? After applying an efix (for example security fixes) the TE (Trusted Execution) tsd.dat is modified and stanza are replace with keyword VOLATILE. This happens for the replaced binaries (executables) and libraries, that were r...
2 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

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