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    A system needs to have the ability to call home when the slot on the bus is owned by the operating system (IBMi, AIX, Linux) and there is no hardware error logged as currently a system can only call home

    There are cases where an issue has occurred on a system where data cannot pass but no hardware error has been logged. This can affect any adapter that passes data and is owned by the operating system. If this occurs, IBM cannot be automatically no...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

    Develop and Support Source Files 2.0 on IBM i

    The use of legacy PF-SRC files is pervasive and cannot be abandoned. However, the need for an enhance source file structure is obvious. We need it to be a multi-member file as it is now, however with the following minimum enhancements: 1) Line/Rec...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a GET SQL OBJECT TYPE for IBM i Objects API

    We need a way to pass in an IBM i object and return a value that indicates (A) The SQL Object Type and (B) whether or not is is an SQL Object. Effectively this would allow us to check if the object is an SQL object and obtain its SQL Object Type. ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Future consideration

    HMC to use Novalink to proxy/relay RMC connections for AIX & Linux

    In a PowerVC Novalink environment where, for security or other reasons a direct RMC connection between the HMC and AIX/Linux is not allowed, it would be advantageous if the Novalink partitions could act as a proxy/relay for RMC connectivity betwee...
    about 1 year ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

    WRKACTJOB - add a filter by Status

    On our system, we frequently have thousands of jobs running. While we can sort by status, it would be very nice to be able to filter by status so we do not have to scroll across dozens of pages to get to the status we want to isolate, and also wou...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Not under consideration

    provide standard interface to translate SYSNAME (10) and SQLNAME (128)

    regarding RFE https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=152380maybe IBM can deliver two standard interfaces for CL programmers make life more easy to translate between 10 char system name and SQL long name like a) R...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Future consideration

    [AJS] Add SQL services for the Advanced Job Scheduler

    [AJS] Add SQL services for the Advanced Job Scheduler Add SQL service for the Advanced Job Scheduler in a similar way as IBM have done with the native/basic job scheduler would be greatly appreciated. Use Case: An easier and more modern way of vie...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Not under consideration

    Allow interactive jobs to run threaded applications

    Currently interactive jobs on the IBM i are not allowed to run multithreaded applications. Whilst there is a possible "workaround" to execute these in PASE / QSH; yet to be verified in our instance if this works or not, the ability to execute a na...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Future consideration

    System tables to use date / time fields instead of character fields in job format

    Current IBM supplied output files, such as QADSPOBJ, that are use as templates for associated system commands store dates in 2 character fields and times in single character fields. Given the power of Db2 for i and the availability of date / time ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Not under consideration

    Change SBMJOB SCDTIME behavior

    Please either change SBMJOB to go ahead and run a command if the SCDTIME is for an earlier time on the current date. Or else please provide a separate option to override that error and have it actually submit the job. Use Case: We have CLs that st...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Future consideration

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