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    PVLAN support for PowerVM

    Currently PowerVM only accepts PVLANs by forcing VEPA on its vswitch and private-vlan host mode set on the external switch port (1 primary VLAN, 1 secondary PVLAN). (as described in this IBM developerworks link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/...
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

    Allow zero-based numbering / subscripts for arrays within RPG via compiler directive / ctl-opt

    Over the past several releases, RPG has greatly enhanced its array capabilities. Several "modern" programming languages such as C, Java, PHP & Python are indexed beginning with the zero subscript. In allowing RPG to use zero-based numbering vi...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 7 Not under consideration

    Extend 32763 limitation on display file record

    HTML keyword is useful to our environment as we use enhanced 5250 displays running IBMi Access for Web. However, the record length limitation makes it where our html portion of the output is limited.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    Enhancements to IBM i Development

    Enhancement Request: Client certificate authentication (Mutual TLS) for Toolbox JDBC Driver Use Case: I can't recall the case but we were helped by Cristina (can't recall her full name as well).
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Future consideration

    After VIOS complete boot to trigger any IBM i VMs to start

    We could not find a mechanism to start IBM i VMs after VIOS complete IPL. This is necessary for unattended operations in case of power failure or a complete reboot of the hardware is required. VIOS starts automatically after the hardware is starte...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Needs more information

    Stream file source for UIM objects

    The UIM language has a feature to import a copybook source member, with the .im tag. I would like to see this support IFS paths to a stream file, in the same way that you can with e.g. RPG's /include . This would allow me to compile UIM menus from...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Future consideration

    XSLTRANSFORM should support newer XSLT version

    Using XSLTRANSFORM and it's excellent but...It supports XALAN 1.1. XSLT that is very limited and old.The transformations would be so much easier to create if at least XALAN 2.x will be supported.Today I have to make workarounds in mapping to archi...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

    updateios breaks the update due to network disruption

    You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS011570960Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.4.10 on top of his system 3.1.3.14.During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to network dis...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Set Service Program signature via the CRTSRVPGM command

    Today, the signature is set by one of the following methods:1. From the STRPGMEXP SIGNATURE statement of the QSRVSRC source2. Automatically generated during service program creation if no QSRVSRC is specified or SIGNATURE is *GEN When using method...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 5 Not under consideration

    Screensize in DSPF

    Today in a DSPF you have the option for DSPSIZ:24x80 *DS327x132 *DS4 Would it possible for the 5250 datastream to add a third option like:21x28 *DS2 additionally would it possible to add a larger screen size as *ds5? Use Case: A normal user have a...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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