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System Management

In RUN SQL Scripts enable common font resizing methods

Although Run SQL Scripts does support font resizing, the controls are difficult to access quickly and do not align with common or expected methods for changing font size. This slows me down, particularly when sharing my screen during conference ca...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Extend the QCMDEXC SQL procedure and function to log the CL command run

Many SQL programmers using the QSYS2.QCMDEXC procedure and function are logging the CL command specified as parameter to the procedure / function, often to the joblog by calling SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF, just before calling QCMDEXC. The idea is to have QC...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Run SQL Scripts: Remove redundant variable prompting

When prompting for multiple substitution variables with same name, only prompt once.
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Support Volumegroup snapshots in PowerVC

Since SVC support Volumegroup based snapshots, please implement this feature in PowerVC.
10 months ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Add an HTTP status code for SQL not found

When deploying a REST web service based on SQL queries, it is possible to specify an HTTP status code for success (200 by default) and another for error (500 by default). However, when reading datas by an SQL select and a WHERE clause (e.g., sele...
9 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving Future consideration

Add mTLS authentication to IWS

It is currently possible to configure Apache to run mTLS. However, the Apache instance is becoming less and less useful with IWS, and we want to be able to implement mTLS directly within the IWS Java instance.
2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving Future consideration
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Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console Future consideration

Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
about 1 year ago in PowerVC Future consideration

New QSYS2 Table function : QSYS2.WRITER_INFO

Hello, I wanted to retrieve the list of all the writers present on my client's machine.I tried with the SQL table : QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS.SELECT * FROM TABLE (QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL ','*DEVD')) WHERE OBJATTRIBUTE in ('PRTLAN','PRTVRT','PR...
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
about 1 year ago in PowerVC Future consideration

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