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Allow DCL-S within enum to support exact parameter passing

I would find it useful to use ENUMs with Exact parameter passing. At present, anything within an enum is implicitly defined using "DCL-C". Exact parameter passing requires variables to be defined as being LIKE the same parameter type, and so an en...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration
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GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
about 1 year ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Allow a "FOR SYSTEM NAME" for CREATE ALIAS

DevOps providers want to be able to fallback and restore implementation objects of SQL objects. CREATE ALIAS creates a *FILE DDMF in the library but we are not able to control the implementation name. This requires a lot of processing to make sure...
12 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Provide visual indication when IWS web UI is busy

When the IWS server web UI is doing work, there is no visual indication that it is busy when managing deployed services. Providing a busy indicator will make managing deployed services much easier because we will have an indication when processes ...
17 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
5 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Modernizing WPAR Technology in AIX (Linux-like Containerization)

I would like to address the future of containerization in IBM AIX. Since the proposal for "Docker on AIX" did not receive approval, I suggest an alternative approach: investing in the development of WPAR technology to align it with modern containe...
3 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
3 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Future consideration

Authority Collection should include "object attribute"

Authority Collection should include "object attribute" along with the existing information about objects being accessed (object schema, object name, object type). Currently it is not possible to discern a physical file from a display file using th...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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