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Install and Upgrade and Licensing

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D-IPL from VTL in IBM Cloud for IBMi VSI builds

As far as I can see, there is no straightforward process to install IBMi VSIs in Cloud. There is a long winded process of setting up an NFS, adding image catalog, populating the catalog, sharing it, etc. If I have a system save of the on-prem imag...
3 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

DLTIMGCLG -- disks goes 100% busy

Deleting an image catalog and its related IFS.files using this command DLTIMGCLG IMGCLG(myImgClg) KEEP(*NO) causes the disks to be 100% busy. This simply kills the system, putting everything to a halt. And it can not be interrupted once started. I...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 2 Is a defect

Future price update should be reflected on e-Config

We see quite many price increase or decrease announcements with future effective date, but e-Config always output the price as of today. We want to have some mechanism in e-Config to specify the "as of date" in order to reflect the updated future ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

pre-check of LS fragmentation

with regards to archive PMR 26573,110,846 we would like to suggest to have load source fragmentation level checked as part of GO LICPGM/Prepare for Install/Allocate additional space for LIC (and in IBM pre-upgrade verification tool for IBM i) Use ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Not under consideration

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