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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Networking
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 21, 2023
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit IBMI-I-3797 Lock CMNxx from having multiple IPs assigned.

Lock CMNxx from having multiple IPs assigned Merged

We have a system that we will be hosting at our data center and we would like to be able to block the CMN03 port which is used as the a LAN Console port from being changed to allow anything else to use it.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Sep 28, 2023
    Marking this idea a duplicate of the newly created IBM Idea IBMI-I-3797. See https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-3797 for more information.

    IBM Power Systems Development
  • Guest
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    Sep 22, 2023

    Sorry, yes these was added to the wrong group. Thank you Daniel for advising me. I'm not sure how to delete this. Hopefully people wilil realize and ignore this idea here :)

  • Guest
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    Sep 21, 2023

    Hi Mike, Unfortunately, this idea appears to be for IBMi in our infrastructure group. This workspace is for Cloud Pak for Data Connectivity. I'm limited in my ability to reassign this to other products in our Data & AI portfolio. You can get it to the correct group by opening it here: https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ and selecting Networking as the category.