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    Add 5250 and VTxxx web console to FSP

    Please, add a web-console or telnet/ssh console to the FSP for single-LPAR systems.
    7 months ago in Power Systems Design 2 Under review

    VIOS Performance collection replacement tool

    Is there a replacement tool available within VIOS for the "VIOS Performance collection"? Existing tool results are not supported on any modern browser due to security consumers. I think the tool was useful and gave me some idea of what is happenin...
    7 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Add IMPORTANCE parameter to SNDSMTPEMM and API QtmsCreateSendEmail

    On the old e-mail command SNDDST there was an option to change the content importance of the e-mail. It will add "Importance" to the mail header. Please add this parameter to the command SNDSMTPEMM and API QtmsCreateSendEmail.
    7 months ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Under review

    We should come up with reference architectures and solution blueprints to create IBM Power system appliances for IBM and Non-IBM Software stack e.g. IBM CloudPak, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, EDB, MongoDB etc.

    Many customers (SMEs and mainly project teams in the Enterprises) want to deploy mission-critical applications, database, and middleware solutions with high availability, performance, and above all security, and to integrate IBM and open-source so...
    4 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Cross (solution applicable to multiple industries) 0 Under review

    Cloud Connector STATUS needs a better method of identifying HMCs

    The STATUS tab for Cloud Connector ( under Setup ) does not provide a simple and consistent method of identifying the HMCs. It would be helpful to have an additional column that contains the name of the HMC to keep consistency with other screens a...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Under review

    Sending Apache Server access and error logs to a Syslog Server

    Enable sending of Apache Server access and error logs on IBM i to a local or remote Syslog Server
    8 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Under review

    Allow option to not log invalid OID requests as TCP4012 in job QTMSNMP

    It was discovered while a monitoring team had the IBM i LPARs set up in SolarWinds (SW) for SNMP monitoring that the QTMSNMP jobs were reaching maximum log size and ending. IBM support identified that among the OIDs SW was requesting were OIDs tha...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Networking 1 Under review

    EIM Windows domain source mapping from CRTUSRPRF

    On CRTUSRPRF we have the parameter EIMASSOC. This lets us create an EIM identifier and add the current system as a TARGET. Every new user that is created need to also have the windows domain as a SOURCE in order for single signon to work. This mea...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

    Get the lpar name instead of lpar id on lsmap -vadapter output

    The only way I have to get the lpar name to which a vhost is connected to is to get it in the HMC. On my clients HMC access is restricted to the NIMs and not available on the VIOS. So I am unable to write a script that get's all the mappings for a...
    4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    OAuth support for gmail email from IBMi

    I've put this request in because Tech Support had nothing and recommended this as the course of action at this time. As of September 30, 2024, gmail is no longer allowing POP and SMTP for email. Anyone using gmail to send emails from the IBMi will...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Under review

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