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GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
about 1 year ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Future consideration

Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
26 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
2 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Modernizing WPAR Technology in AIX (Linux-like Containerization)

I would like to address the future of containerization in IBM AIX. Since the proposal for "Docker on AIX" did not receive approval, I suggest an alternative approach: investing in the development of WPAR technology to align it with modern containe...
3 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Authority Collection should include "object attribute"

Authority Collection should include "object attribute" along with the existing information about objects being accessed (object schema, object name, object type). Currently it is not possible to discern a physical file from a display file using th...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Backup MFA Server on HMCs

We have implemented MFA on all our HMCs via PowerSC MFA Servers, but in the Multi Factor Authentication configuration of HMC, has only one Server HostName or IP address of PowerSC MFA Server to configure! That means that if we failover to the back...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Copy User Profile - No Option to NOT copy TOTP

Problem Statement When copying user profiles to other systems through Navigator for i, there is no option to NOT copy their TOTP. To reduce TOTP re-use and better align with best security practices; this operation should be disabled by default and...
23 days ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Custom SQLSTATE/MESSAGE for SIGNAL statement

Currently it is possible with the SIGNAL statement to return a custom SQLSTATE and message. DECLARE COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000'; DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND SIGNAL SQLSTATE '75001' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Country no...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

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