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Link Aggregation NIC adapter replacement without service interruption

When replacing a NIC that is part of an Ethernet Link Aggregation configuration, it is necessary to temporarily disable the Line description on IBMi OS. As a result, the IP address is deactivated, making a service outage unavoidable.Although Power...
4 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Submitted

Add capability of defining subgroups for Compliance page

For usability in large environments it would behelpfull to be able to create subgroups on the Compliance page. Here an example: Group: SAP - Sub-Group: SAP-Test SAP-QA SAP-Prod
3 days ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
15 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Follow up for CVE-2024-27275 and ACS - > Database Maintenance with Function Usage options

With the recent changes to restrict *PUBLIC from *USE to *EXCLUDE in regards to files created in QRECOVERY for db administration tasks like reorganizing tables (physical files), table alters and index rebuilds, would it be possible with the except...
1 day ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Few confirmation screen before power off manage system

It has been observed a couple of times in the past that the managed server on the processors (i.e. the whole machine) has been powered off accidently since the enhanced version of the GUI was available. To avoid another accident in future can we h...
10 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted
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Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
6 months ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Submitted

Insert scripts from custom examples

Hello, after installing version 1.1.9.7, I can't insert my custom scripts; In the previous version there was a button that did that. Is there a new option to do so? Thanks in advance
about 2 hours ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

WRKFCNUSG Auditing

It would be nice if any adds/changes/deletes that occur when using the WRKFCNUSG process would be tracking in the Security Audit Journal for the logical replication apps can keep the authorities in sync between SRC and TGT replication sets.
about 3 hours ago in IBM i / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Review multithread capability for OS commands

In these days where access to the IBM is no longer restricted to 5250 sessions, batch jobs etc., the usage of multithreaded applications is becoming more prevalent. This includes, but is not limited to, PASE & SSH. Whilst those environments ca...
1 day ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Enable per-UID network routing like iptables

In most if not all Linux distributions, iptables is used for network routing. IPTables enables routing per UID like so: sudo ip rule add uidrange 1001-1001 table user_wlp sudo ip route add default via 192.168.53.14 table user_wlp This will set the...
1 day ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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