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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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AIX does not seem to resolve nested groups in our LDAP environment..

related to PMR 56094-300-624. It will be easer to describe the issue with examples and informations send to ibm support .With same ldap server , linux VM and aix lpar don't give the same result on lsuser .
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

ssh login delay / timeout when primary dns-server is down

ssh login delay or timeout due to long hostsallowedlogin list when 1st DNS server is not available. 1) linux nslcd is using a filtered search by parameter in config:“pam_authz_search (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=$username)(|(host=$hostname...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Add Yum like REPO to AIX

Installing and maintaining RPMs can be very difficult due to dependency issues. IBM's own Michael Perzl has done some excellent work in this area, however it is still not as simple as it could be when compared to Linux.
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Need Working mt Comand That Actually Gives Tapes Status Information

Like EVERY other UNIX/LINUX out there, we need a working 'mt' command that actually returns the status of the tape drive. 'mt status' should tell us that the tape drive is: 1) Loaded or Unloaded 2) Write protected or Not 3) Tape position (at begin...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

First TCP/IP Retransmission time too long(1.5 seconds or so)

[ Request ]Customer want to shorten the initial TCP/IP retransmission timeout (currently 1500 msec) of AIX since response performance is important their financial trading system. In PMR 76617,695,760, we have confirmed that current initial TCP/IP ...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

TotalView Integration broken with PE1304 (linux)

Product or Service: Parallel Environment Runtime Edition for Linux on x86 Architecture 1.2.0 Component ID: 5725G0001 . Operating System: Linux . Problem title TotalView Integration broken with PE1304 . Problem description With PE1209 the following...
over 10 years ago in Parallel Environment for Power Linux / Runtime Edition 3 Is a defect
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ODBC driver for Mac

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Provide an ODBC driver for Mac OSX that can communicate with DB2 for i. Use Case: Windows and Linux desktop users can configure their open source language development environment (i.e. VSCode with Node.js) to connect to DB2 for i. This is great be...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

Allow hashed passwords for IBM i JDBC connections

We are using JDBC for connecting from Linux systems to our IBM i databases.There are multiple scripts which automatically and periodically process all available databases. Currently we could either input the password every time a script is execute...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Include Patch for GSSAPI key exchange support in AIX version of OpenSSH

IBM Power Systems customer Bloomberg requests that AIX include the Patch for GSSAPI key exchange support in the AIX version of OpenSSH. All other commercial Unix operating systems used by this customers contain this patch as well as major commerci...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered