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Ability to save console logs on a linux virtual terminal/console

Provide ability to retain/save console logs (hvc0) on a linux console terminal (vtmenu)
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

RDp to handle special character in RPG

Unfortunately there is no solution at this time. The EBCDIC control characters used in the green screen environment have no specified visual representation in Unicode and it is left up to each operating system to decide how to render them. RD Powe...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

OpenDJ LDAP nested group support

LDAP users defined in nested groups in a OpenDJ LDAP server are not resolved. We have LDAP authentication deployed on our AIX and Linux servers. When we put a group in a group only Linux servers are able to resolve the user in the nested group. AI...
about 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

TNCPM Referrer persistent logging and OS discovery

When the VIOS IP Referrer is installed and configured to monitor new IP (detected by SVM over SEA), it inform "admin" by email of the newly detected IP which do not have an agent running. Adding the IP to the Policy Server, and visibility in the P...
almost 7 years ago in PowerSC 1 Not under consideration

AIX leap second handling

Both Linux and Solaris (for lack of better terms) are using a "stretched 59th second " that last for 2 seconds before it ticked to 00. So when compared to TAI, when the clock ticked to 00, all will be in synced. The requirement is that AIX provide...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

IPSEC Solution Function Enhancement Request

I'm CTS for KFCC and submit this request on behalf of KFCC. KFCC requested to add a funcing for ports range selection in IPSEC solution.Other OS such as Linux, Windows, Solaris support ports range selection but IBM AIX only support individual port...
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Better errors notification or commands to diagnose LDAP problem in HMC.

We are beginning to use LDAP to authenticate admins who are using the HMC, but are not having success. We don't see any problems when using local authentication. I have tested our LDAP settings from a Linux host with the "ldapsearch" tool availabl...
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

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

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

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