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    Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers

    For Power9 Ubuntu was supported for Novalink. For Power10 it is not, and only RHEL is supported and it is not free. We need to have Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers. Ubuntu 22.04 is a long term support so it is worth ...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 6 Future consideration

    Add support for Java 21 to IBM i

    Java 21 is needed so we can use new features also on IBM i. It will enable IBM i community to run applications that requires java 21. Java 21 (IBM Semeru) is already available for other platforms.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Submitted

    Add support for hpt_ratios

    Novalink supports PPT but not HPT (hardware page table), as such cannot tune memory for LPARs managed by novalink as you can on HMC managed. lshwres -r mem --level sys -F possible_hpt_ratios [PVME01040180-0024] Attribute possible_hpt_ratios is not...
    6 months ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

    GENERATED_SPREADSHEET with kerberos and password *NONE

    In an evironments with kerberos and users with password *NONE the scalar funcion doesn't work (MSGSY0271), it would be great if this limitation didn`t exist.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Future consideration

    Need support of HMC CLI on Novalink

    When moving from HMC to Novalink i have the problem that all my scripts i wrote over years for adding / changing and deleting LPARS are not working anymore because Novalink doenst nuderstand HMC CLI commands e.g. lssyscfg etc. There is a developme...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    RUNJVA RESTART(*YES) or ENDJVA to restart the Java Virtual Machine

    One of the reasons that I till now only have seen java used in batch jobs is, that you have absolutely no control over the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) once it is started. Environment variables are for example only initialized once. This means you c...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Not under consideration

    API for getting thread id & thread name such as in command PRTJVMJOB *thread

    For JVM users and ERP (such as M3 or others), the thread id inside JVM could be internal to software or dedicated tool. In this case, to investigate job performance such as idoctor or job watcher it is impossible to search a job or tasks with the ...
    8 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 0 Submitted

    Add FIPS support to JDK 17 and beyond.

    FIPS is a requirement for criminal justice processing. It was previously supported in JDK 8 (and maybe later) on the iSeries. It is not supported in JDK 17. To be in compliance with federal Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) standards, FI...
    10 months ago in IBM i / JAVA 2 Submitted

    Add installer option to select alternate adapter to slot 3

    Clients would like to install novalink in greenfield environments and select the slot used.
    8 months ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    Job reference missing in spoolfile

    When working with JVM's on IBM the function Print GC Tables, produces a spoolfile in which no reference to the job it is derived from is present. This makes analyses very complicated. Use Case: When using the command WRKJVMJOB and option 9 offers ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Planned for future release

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