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Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Virtual Hierarchical Switching Fabric

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between the next version Power System ( may be IBM Power 11 or Later ) and Exa scale AI Data Centers based ...
almost 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

Allow default setting of 'home' and 'shell' user attributes

Some customers will have their system's users defined remotely through LDAP or a similar module; these users might be defined on Windows AD, for example. Although typically there should be the ability to set a user's home directory and shell on th...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL Interconnection, CXL 3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL 4.0 based on PCIe7

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
almost 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Future consideration

Offer Windows USB recovery media tool for the HMC

IBM only offer a Linux method of creating a USB bootable recovery image for the HMC (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6454883). It would be good to have a media creation tool for Windows which can take the ISO recovery image and format the U...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

SQL Add ANCHOR DATA To (%TYPE) functionality

The lack of support for the %TYPE or ANCHOR DATA TO for data declarations affects our ability to port databases that use this functionality. We are looking at porting a Postgres based application to IBM i and have a large number of functions that ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Add SIEM support to PowerVC GUI

We run PowerVC in an environment where security is key. To facilitate this, we are running a SIEM appliance; this is a central monitoring device, setup to receive information from all kinds of systems, to collect security-relevant data. Reports fr...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

add support for AIX and IBM i in yarnpkg

Yarn is a package manager for Javascript projects (https://yarnpkg.com/). It is used in many open and closed source projects for dependency management. As for now yarn doesn't support big endian architectures, such as AIX and IBM i. It means, that...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Add physical bytes used on media to QSRSAV format for save output

We currently have no way to know how much space is used and how much is available on our LTO media until we fill the tape. The save commands support output to a file in QSRSAV format, which includes the original size of the objects that were saved...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration

SMBC authentication options

Currently SMBC on AIX relies on Kerberos to authenticate; this request is to add NTLMv2, in a similar fashion to how SMB and/or CIFS shares work on Linux.
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

AIX server time zone is EST5EDT. Need to transfer AIX Syslog entries to remote syslog server in UTC timezone format.

AIX server time zone is EST5EDT. Need to transfer AIX Syslog entries to remote syslog server in UTC timezone format. This is a priority request from InfoSec team. We have found solution for LINUX server whereas on AIX server as per "TS003340201" w...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 11 Future consideration

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