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Db2 for i

Have a P05 tier level system in every new initial Power system rollout.

I understand wanting to get high end systems as they might be the first people to need the new horsepower of a new Power system. However these same people may not be allowed to go to a new Power System until that model has been certified by their ...
9 months ago in Power Systems Design Submitted

Enable Shared Processor Pool within PEP 2.0

In the current implementation of PEP 2.0, the processor resources available in operation are composed of the respective Base Activations per machine and the additional credits. The limit of the usable resources corresponds to the total installed p...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM Not under consideration

PowerVC appliance, - external system health monitoring for the control plane

PowerVC classis has an open OS, as such OS administrators and monitor and setup alerts for any performance issues on the control plane, PowerVC appliance is a closed system, as such requires a supported hook to externalize monitoring the system he...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC Submitted

Allow data structures to be extended or decorated

RPG currently allows us to define a data structure with the same layout another with the LIKEDS keyword. It would be useful to be able to use a similar keyword to define the basic structure, but also to extend the data structure and add additional...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

User friendly logging of any change activity on HMC for LPAR and Power Server itself

Would like to have a recording of activities like change,add,remove things for LPAR and/or Power Server in the HMC. The task window is not enough and shows only minimal change information.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

Since PowerVC is using Python 3.11 and the RedHat OS still depends on Python 3.9. Can't you have PowerVC run in a virtual Python 3.11 environment?

The systems administrators (your customers) would benefit. As it stands today. we can either collect a powervc-diag or a sos report. we can't do both.
6 months ago in PowerVC Under review

DSPPGMREF with SQL

In SQL Services create a view or UDF, who have the same information as the CL command DSPPGMREF Use Case: get the list of programs that use a file ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

HMC nmon

HMC nmon implementation or enhancement of monhmc
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

Add parameter to RSTLIB / RSTOBJ commands to restore table(s) without data

Please consider adding a parameter to the RSTLIB and RSTOBJ commands to allow restore of DB2 tables / PF's without data (rows). It would be great to be able to restore libraries or objects without getting the data onto the system. Use case 1: We h...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

provide QSYSINC RPG includes in full free format

Today, we have QSYSINC RPG includes members in fixed format. More and more applications are nowadays written using full free format. Even IBM has a strong focus on using this format. Therefore, it would be consistent to have QSYSINC RPG includes m...
10 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Not under consideration