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Support Volumegroup snapshots in PowerVC

Since SVC support Volumegroup based snapshots, please implement this feature in PowerVC.
9 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Enhance maximum variable length to 4GB

More and more we need to handle data with sizes over 16MB ie XML, so it would help a lot if it was possible to handle the maximum amount of data in a variable. Therefore I would like to have the possibility to define variables in RPG with a size o...
about 23 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Support OIDC / SAML SSO in addition to local OS/LDAPs authentication

LDAPs while better than local auth has a number of issues that make it less than optimal in an enterprise environment: - Authentication locks due to failed credentials- Shoehorned-in MFA- credentials are managed through the application vs. externa...
1 day ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 8 Submitted

licensing for db2connect change

as a small MSP we eventually ran into a situation where a customer wants to test DB2connect for development purposes. Current Licensing requires us to buy or rent DB2connect for all IBM i enabled cores on the particular server which then can be us...
8 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted
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Link Aggregation NIC adapter replacement without service interruption

When replacing a NIC that is part of an Ethernet Link Aggregation configuration, it is necessary to temporarily disable the Line description on IBMi OS. As a result, the IP address is deactivated, making a service outage unavoidable.Although Power...
4 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Submitted

Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

New -l (list) flag for 'vmruiinst.ksh' to show URL of all RPMs to download

Currently the GUI vmruiinst.ksh script provides -d & -p flags to download required RPMs from the Internet (see Case TS019597256).Bust many Clients do not have an AIX LPAR with Internet connection therefore it's a problem for them to download a...
2 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

PVC MFA Code Over mail

Dear Team, At the customer environment, there are currently 17 PVC Applications in use. As part of the ongoing security enhancement plan, we are in the process of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all these applications. As per th...
2 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Request for Documentation and Official Support of `uuid_create_os()` in the Standard Library of AIX 7.3

When generating UUIDs in C++, we previously used `uuid_create()`. However, this function was unable to generate UUIDs of Version 4, which did not meet our requirements. After consulting with STSS regarding this issue, we were introduced to the `uu...
2 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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