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Power9 AIX 7.1 TL3 support

AIX 7.1 TL3 Power9 support to use new hardware for our existing vms
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

0N002 - A character cannot be mapped to a valid XML character.

Since we started using SQL more and more to build and parse XML we are running into SQL state error of 0N002 - A character cannot be mapped to a valid XML character. Our only known fix for this is to do a regular expression statement on each colum...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

RDI: Synchronize settings, filters etc between RDI on more PCs

I would like to have the possibility to save the settings, member filters etc in my home directory on the IBM i my RDI is connected to. And when reconnecting later the settings should be synchronized with what is previously saved. What should be s...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Allow the specification of minage to be less than a week

Currently value set for minage is in weeks and the smallest value to enter is 1, equating to 1 week. This value is to high and we would like the ability to specify minage in hours or days.
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow Unabbreviated RPG Freeform Data Type Keywords

Please change the SQL precompiler, RPG compiler, and Rational Developer for i to also recognize and allow the unabbreviated forms of the RPG freeform data type keywords. Use Case: For example, ucs2 is fine as it is. But, allow: integer for intindi...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

Be sure a CPU a device is attached to is present in the LPAR

When a device is attached to a LPAR, there is no guarantee that the CPU this device is attached to will be part of the LPAR. This leads to device with no specific numa node, confusing script managing irqbalancing like the Mellanox one and probably...
over 4 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

RAID Conversion Function in Storage Manager

Changing RAID Level or RAID Protection Hot Spare level requires all RAID protection to be stopped and restarted. This is a long running process and leaves the system vulnerable to a single disk failure during the process. This is exacerbated by th...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage 3 Not under consideration

Capability to leverage AIX MPIO & EMC PowerPath

Would like to manage RootVG LUNs by AIX MPIO and DataVGs / LUNs to be managed by DELL - EMC Multipath - PowerPath.
about 6 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

BRMS SAVLIB *NONSYS ENHANCEMENT

Can I request an enhancement for the SAVLIB *NONSYS and the ability to omit libs. SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) DEV(QTAPEXX) OMITLIB(XXXXXX YYYYYY ZZZZZZZ) OUTPUT(*PRINT) Use Case: Prefer to recover system using media from SAVLIB *NONSSYS as opposed to usin...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement IWS rest api swagger

Show the output fields in SQL api
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Not under consideration

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