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PowerVC allows both local and LDAP users to authenticate in parallel

You can either have the local users OR LDAP configured with PVC, not both. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSXK2N_1.4.1/com.ibm.powervc.standard.help.doc/powervc_ldap_hmc.html Also as per the IBM technician for a case opened there is n...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

Implement TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP in Db2 for i

Other IBM database products have a method TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP that can be used to convert a timestamp from the local time zone to UTC, with awareness of the DST rules in effect on the date in question. Example Knowledge Center page from IBM Big SQL 5...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Add exit point for job message queue full event

IBM has provided the very useful SQL table function QSYS2.JOBLOG_INFO to return the messages in a job log (we also have the messaging API's, but I will focus on JOBLOG_INFO here because of its ease of use). JOBLOG_INFO can be used to investigate w...
10 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

HTTP logging of HTTP_GET_VERBOSE and HTTP_POST_VERBOSE

When consuming a web service using the SQL based HTTP_GET_VERBOSE and HTTP_POST_VERBOSE, it would be extremely helpful to get a full log of the HTTP communication to the web service much like the LIBHTTP tools allowed for. Currently there is a way...
10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Extend field in SSL trace output that includes cipher information

When analyzing output of SSL trace data, this may involve dumping the output to a spreadsheet for further analysis and comparison against cipher lists from QSSLCSL and/or SST (TLSCONFIG). The challenge when comparing data is that since many cipher...
5 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

Allow service program AND SQL based APIs under the same web server

Currently, when deploying a new service on a Web Services Server, you have to select between ILE program object as a Web service or SQL as a Web service, and then specify the resource...i.e. URI path template. The URI path name becomes the Service...
7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

IBM i MULTIPATH SAN BEHAVIOR

Hello,Following the opening of an IBM i OS incident, we were told that we could not specify at the IBM i level the switching behavior between the different SAN paths. If on a loss of SAN path the automatic switch to another SAN path suits us, we d...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Storage 6 Future consideration

EPP 2.0 subpools

Today only one single Enterprise Pool is possible. We want to divide a pool into subpools, for example for different subsidiaries or departments. It should be possible to share the base resources across all systems, but people should only be able ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

WRKPRB in Navigator for i

WRKPRB equivalent should be available in Navigator for i
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Not under consideration

Add autorefresh functionnality in new Navigator interface

Hello, As the new "IBM Navigator for i" seems much more usable than the older one, I was wondering if that would be possible to add an autorefresh functionnality in some area of the new web GUI. I'am thinking in particular here: work management -&...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

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