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System Management

AIX Security reporting tool

Since CIS Tool latest version (v4.x) dropped support for generating AIX security reports based on CIS AIX 7.x benchmark; There is currently NO tool, which would generate decent HTML security reports from AIX systems. And that is a HUGE gap in secu...
almost 2 years ago in PowerSC Planned for future release

Enhance maximum variable length to 4GB

More and more we need to handle data with sizes over 16MB ie XML, so it would help a lot if it was possible to handle the maximum amount of data in a variable. Therefore I would like to have the possibility to define variables in RPG with a size o...
10 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Under review

Remove permissions from catalog files

Here is a reproducible example Signon on QSECOFR or a profil with *secadm create a table CREATE TABLE LIB.CLIENTBQ ( NUMERO DEC ( 5) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, NOM CHAR ( 20) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, IBAN CHAR ( 14) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT) remove public ...
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

New QCALENDAR API.

The new QCALENDAR API can be called when the user presses F4 on a date-type field and allows them to select a date.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development Submitted

Query a specific JVM via QSYS2.JVM_INFO

To automate the monitoring of JVMs, one approach is to utilize QSYS2.JVM_INFO like this: SELECT * from TABLE(QSYS2.JVM_INFO(WAIT_TIME => 1)) WHERE JOB_NAME = '791185/JOBUSER/JOBNAME' Unfortunately, to get the values of a single JVM, this call m...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration
124 VOTE

HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console Submitted

New *EMPTY constant

Follow-up on https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4107. Instead of using *blank / *blanks, when one wants to return an empty string from a function, instead of writing: return ''; One could write: return *empty;
6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

Suport internal disk drive encryption on VIOS

Some companies have the requierement that all data stored in disk drives to be encrypted at rest. With the newer NVMe drives with hardware encryption capability and / or the availability of the hdcryptmgr in AIX 7.3, please support the encryption ...
14 days ago in PowerVM VIOS Future consideration

Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA Future consideration

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