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136 VOTE

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...
2 months ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Submitted

Point SQL messages to the place where they originated

When we see a message in the log like SQL0501 - Cursor xxx not open, and drill down to the details to find where the message comes from we see internal SQL references and not our program name and statement. This makes it hard to debug and fix. Ple...
2 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

RACF should support dynamic altering the RACF database configuration

Currently, the names of the RACF databases are defined in the SYS1.PARMLIB(IRRPRM00) parmlib member. Those dataset names become constant for the IPL. They can not be changed without SYSPLEX-wide IPLs which would cause the customer massive outages ...
9 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Integrate AIX software repositories (including Toolbox) with RHEL Satellite for central management of both operating systems.

We use the RHEL satellite (and Foreman) for all Linux hosts, why not integrate also AIX here and then maybe also use the insights software for monitoring and reporting.
6 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted
247 VOTE

Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
8 months ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

Add Applied Date to PTF Group Currency Service

IBM i 7.6 included an enhancement to DSPPTFGRP command to show the date the PTF Group was applied. Please add this Applied Date to the IBM PTF Group Service.
1 day ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

when using the /PLUGIN=checkupdates show the current and target version, ie 1.1.9.8, of ACS

please show the system name or directory location from where the update is originating. this will be helpful to make sure of the target version that is being updated.
1 day ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
7 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

SQL service: add functionality to view application definitions

Hello, we have this great table function CERTIFICATE_INFO table function - IBM Documentation we were wondering recently - would it be possible to to have a functionality to retrieve info on Application definitions / Services existing in DCM. Examp...
6 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

support backing up(backupios command) of VIOS to USB memory stick

The backupios command manual states that only tape and cd are supported. At least there is no mention of USB memory sticks. In many cases, there is a desire to back up the VIOS onto a USB memory stick. Considering the operational convenience, the ...
about 2 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

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