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Enable the use of VLAN tagging for HMC LAN/network ports

The HMC’s LAN/network ports do not accept VLAN‑tagged traffic when a public IP is configured. They expect untagged (access) frames on a single VLAN. If an HMC LAN port is connected to a switch port set as a trunk (carrying multiple 802.1Q‑tagged V...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Detailing environmental variables used by IBM products

It would be a great starting point having IBM list the environmental variables used for controlling additional application behavior allowing administrators the ability in some cases to control additional system behavior. eg QIBM_SMTP_FWDSVR_LCL_MAIL
2 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 2 Submitted

Add support for golang on power i

We run node servers built from typescript projects on power i. Typescript has recently announced they will be porting over their transpiler to golang https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/ Angular has already switched to...
3 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v8.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

We are getting dinged by Qualys that our IBM i is exposed to CVE-2023-51385. I have applied the fixes listed at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7123159 however IBM only chose to patch an old level of OpenSSH instead of putting on a new leve...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Submitted

Project names should be more clearly visible and sorted

When you start PowerVC it asks you which project you wish to work on (if you have access to more than one I guess). It displays prominently across the top of the screen. If you want to change the project you are working on, you get a short list of...
3 months ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

%SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST (or *LAST) occurence

%SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Of course we can code around it using %scan but nowadays UTF strings are more complicated so the code itself can became frag...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

Show under active users, the users connected to IBMi console.

Currently under active users, we can see the ones connected on the GUI (session ID X) and also connected in SSH (Session ID pts/x). But we can't see the ones connected using IBM i console connections through the HMC. It would be nice to have that ...
5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Submitted

Adoption of GOLANG (GO Compiler) by Google in the ibmi-ioss supported within PASE

Nodejs Open source applications are beginning to leverage the GO compiler to increase performance. These tend to be things like Angular, typescript etc.
3 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

BMC user password reset from HMC

This is a continuation of the original RFE: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-435 We would like the password reset functionality for BMC users from HMC to be extended to other BMC accounts (consists of hmcinband, root and ADMIN), including the abi...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Improve AIX Live Kernel Update network security for a cloud

Currently, AIX LKU requires the AIX partition to be able to access the HMC (or PowerVC) and login with an account that has sufficiently high privileges to create and delete partitions, network adapters etc. In our setup, as cloud provider, the cus...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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