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PowerVC FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize support to align with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize feature releases.

Currently PowerVC with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize support is not aligned with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize feature releases. PowerVC should align with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize releases in the same way that it aligns with Power releases...
2 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

make it possible to use regular expressions in HMC systems-view-panel search

the HMC systems-view search is very helpful when working with a bigger number of sytems/LPARs/VIOS connected/managed to HMC.with the search you can reduce the view to the sytems/LPARs/VIOs you are planning to work with.this helps to speed up work ...
8 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Add a message after the CPI3E34 when routing work to a different subsystem by user profile

When routing work by user profile for the host servers, there is a CPIAD09 message sent that the user connected to the system, followed by CPIAD0C that the work was transferred to a target subsystem (7.5). On 7.4 and earlier, there are two CPIAD09...
3 days ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Submitted

Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
18 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Ragged Flash and Live Partition Mobility – Modify CHGASPA to use multiple serial numbers

1. Problem description Currently at V7R5 the CHGASPA command with No commit boundary set to yes, we only have the option to enter a single serial number making restoring to a Recovery LPAR that has been migrated using LPM would not cut the ragged ...
about 22 hours ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Change GENCMDDOC Command Processing Program to ACTGRP to NOT *NEW

The GENCMDDOC uses the JVM. Its command processing program runs in activation group *NEW. Therefore each call to GENCMDDOC starts a JVM. It is never reused. Therefore each call to GENCMDDOC takes "centuries" to get the results, causing contemporar...
2 days ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) Not under consideration

RSEAPI - Security services - add the certificate chain aliases to the return JSON

Hi, The selection criteria in the certificate APIs are based on the alias.To be able to retrieve a certificate chain via the API post /api/v1/security/dcm/cert/info, is it possible to add the issuer alias ? current json : { "alias": "MyCertificate...
2 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving Submitted

Add CCSID keyword to declared constants

Situation When we run a program in environments with different CCSID's and that program is using literals containing characters with different code points in different CCSID's (like square brackets '[' and ']' in CCSID 1140 and 1148) then ctl-opt ...
2 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Functionality already exists

Please add subsystem column to QSYS2.JVM_INFO

We use QSYS2.JVM_INFO to monitor specific JVMs, alert of heap size etc. It would be really helpful if we could retrieve/filter on the subsystem of the JVM. We have multiple JVMs with the same runtime characteristics - except subsystem - for instan...
2 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Avoid HTTP server down time for certificate renewal

With the looming prospect of certificate renewal every 47 days after 15 March 2029 in mind, it will become a burden if this requires an HTTP to be restarted. This is about adding functionality to "refresh" a certificate when it is being renewed, t...
29 days ago in IBM i / Core OS Submitted

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