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246 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 ...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Extend threshold monitoring and alerting for memory usage

The settings in the cmc for pep2.0 allow the user to set individual thresholds for core usage in a particular cpu pool. However, there is no such setting to notify about overusage of memory. Extending the pool thresholds for memory usage would hel...
20 days ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

WRKPTFGRP vs. DSPPTFGRP

The service below requires the user to be authorized to the WRKPRTGRP. But the service only list information not changing anything, so why not only require authorization to DSPPTFGRP? Improvement suggestion to IBM… SELECT CURRENT SERVER CONCAT ' i...
3 days ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

SMBC file systems via automountd

We would like to mount smb filesystems automatically via automountd. IBM support confirmed that the mount via automountd it is not yet implemented.It is only possible to do a manual mount for smbc which is not very practical. We don't want to crea...
14 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Exit point QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV should include the Netserver file share name

This exit point currently provides a lot of data about file server access, but this one key piece of information is missing (the share name). During security remediation, it would be invaluable to capture the name of the share that is being used, ...
2 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Submitted

Enable the usage of non ephemeral/static ports when using ObjectConnect over TCP/IP

Currently, IBMi ObjectConnect over TCP/IP uses TCP port 9841. Once the connection is established, it attempts to negotiate a data port connection within the ephemeral port range of 5000-65535. This configuration is not practical when a firewall ex...
6 days ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

Convert all OS screens to 132 columns

It would be nice to have all the OS screens (including all output) in 132 columns and not 80 columns. In 2025 everyone has monitors that properly support (and with a nice readable font) 132-column screens.
4 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Include LF with shared access path in SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT

SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT include many usefull informations about logical files (DDS type). Since they are a valid substitute for the use of APIs, it would be very useful if logic files with shared access were also included in ...
8 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Improvement to the DSPPGMREF command

The command currently does not generate information about the commands used in a program.The improvement is to include information about this type of objects and be useful when performing some type of forensic analysis on the IBM i
27 days ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Future consideration
133 VOTE

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 ...
8 months ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Under review

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