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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...
about 12 hours ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) Not under consideration

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...
about 16 hours ago in PowerVC Submitted

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...
about 15 hours 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 ...
about 17 hours 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...
about 21 hours ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Add the parent job for Batch Immediate Jobs to Collection Services Job Data

There can be a lot of batch immediate jobs and sometimes it can be quite difficult to determine where they are coming from, particularly if they are spawn (QP0ZSPWT) jobs. Add the parent job to the Collection Services data to make it much easier t...
1 day ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 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...
1 day ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging Submitted

Planning, Controller, Watsonx BI og and Cognos in one portal

Why have 4 portals to maintain for Planning Analytics, Controller, Watsonx BI and Cognos. Make one portal for all the Analytics products and you will have the strongest analytics solution in the world. The the customers can buy roles and can just ...
2 days ago in AIX Submitted

Add Unallocated Memory to MEMORY_POOL_INFO view and MEMORY_POOL_INFO Table function

Both functions are so good to tune IBM i but including the Unallocated Memory info will be perfect to better adjust the pools.
5 days ago in IBM i / System Management 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 ...
7 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

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