What's new for IBM i 7.1
Read about new or significantly changed information for the Service and support topic collection.
Universal Connection support
Universal Connection support has been enhanced to attempt to automatically configure a direct LAN connection to IBM if a connection to IBM is attempted and no Universal Connection configuration exists. For more information, see Universal Connection.
Manually configuring Universal Connection to use VPN for Electronic Service Agent™ in IBM® i 7.1 is not supported for sending inventory to IBM. IBM recommends using HTTP or HTTPS for sending inventory to IBM.
VFYSRVCFG command
The VFYSRVCFG command has been enhanced to support verification of HTTP/HTTPS connections to IBM.
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