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PowerVC support for Storage Virtualize Safeguarded Snapshots (SGC 2.0)

As an IBM business partner we have several customers using an IBM SAN Volume Controller stretched-cluster configuration with PowerVC for Private Cloud.The customers are interested in a Safeguarded Copy cyber resiliency solution but it cannot be re...
4 days ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Be able to use CTL-OPT BNDDIR anywhere in a program

For each service program, we put our exported prototypes into a "reference source" in a file named "QRPGLEREF". Hence, our programs can use these prototypes by including those reference sources, e.g. program ORD001 might begin: ctl-opt; /include q...
17 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

See progress of RGZPFM

When you do a RGZPFM can we see the progress in the joblog? or somewhere we could see how much progress is being made. This will help gauging how long a reorg will take.
17 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Provide info for current Power usage per Managed Frame with HMC cli command

Hi, for data collection / automation purposes it would be great to have current Power usage per Managed Frame available via HMC cli command like: Name=power-frame-d01, power_usage=859.556 watts Currently the data is available on HMC GUI & HMC ...
24 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

When using Navigator for i (Nav4i) add the function used in the tab name in use by Nav4i in that tab.

Navigator for i is a great tool to manage your IBM i environment. It allows you to use several tabs, but all those tabs have the same name IBM Navigator for i. When having a tab open for: Inquiry messages Custom Charts ARE Console Active Jobs Perf...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Support the new BOOLEAN SQL data type in ACS Data Transfer (Upload to IBM i)

Currently, data transfer (upload) fails if any field in the table is of type BOOLEAN.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Usage of Enumeration in "Outline"-View

When we declare fields, files, enumerations etc. we can see them in our Outline-view and click on them to jump to their declaration in the code.With normal fields, files etc. we also get the references which indicate in which line they are used an...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

New Nav for i - Group System endpoints.

It would be nice to have the ability to group systems in New Nav. I have 130+ systems mixed into prod, dev, and qa. Would be nice to separate them on the Dashboard page. I am using one central location to manage all of my endpoints which is great!...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Code Coverage Consolidation with multiple cczip files on same object not working in RDi9.8

In RDi 9.8, When executing multiple test cases on different procedures in a module or on a program, different cczip files are created. We use below approach to consolidate them and generate the final code coverage. However, it doesn't consolidate ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

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