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    *ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

    We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

    Restoring individual Authorization Lists.

    When moving one customer from a SAAS LPAR to his own LPAR, you must be restoring ALL user profiles to get all Authorization lists. The SAAS LPAR is running multiple customers with over 1500 user profiles. If you want to move one customer with abou...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration

    Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

    The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
    11 months ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

    Automatic Management of TLS Certificates

    Since the validity period of SSL/TLS certificates will be reduced from the current 398 days to 47 days starting in March 2029, managing certificates manually will become very difficult due to the significantly shortened validity.Therefore, a servi...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Submitted

    Extend the SQL command HTTP_DELETE and include a additional body parameter

    It would be great if the SQL command HTPP_DELETE could be extended by an additional request body. I know that this is not the standard, but in an actual project we need to pass an order number in a HTTP_DELETE statement. The problem is, that other...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Run SQL Scripts: Remember previous prompted variable values

    Related to IBMI-I-4640, when using prompted variables, have iACS RSS remember the previous values and present them in a combo box for each variable. This would make running the same query multiple times much easier when you can select previous val...
    2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

    Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

    Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

    PowerVC running EOL MongoDB 5.0 embedded database

    Current PowerVC levels 2.2 and 2.3 both are running at MongoDB version 5.0 which is EOL as of October 31 2024. Please add latest version of the mongoDB to PowerVC versions 2.2 and 2.3
    22 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

    lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    AIX Security reporting tool

    Since CIS Tool latest version (v4.x) dropped support for generating AIX security reports based on CIS AIX 7.x benchmark; There is currently NO tool, which would generate decent HTML security reports from AIX systems. And that is a HUGE gap in secu...
    over 1 year ago in PowerSC 3 Planned for future release

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