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Rational Developer for i Keepalive for Debug Server

For Debug Server started using the command STRDBGSVR the Keep Alive on its port (3825) is never sent.See case TS008748689 Use Case: We found that despite any value set on CHGTCPA TCPKEEPALV parameter the QB5ROUTER "debug server router function" se...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

LPM in PowerVC for VIOS SDS using GPFS as Storage Provider

With PowerVC 2.0 and VIOS 3.1.2.0 there is a new possibility to use Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Remote Cluster mounts in PowerVC as storage provider.Actually there is no possibility to make use of LPM in this environment. The possibility for LPM should ...
about 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

Prompt FTP client to trust remote CA issuer

When connecting to a remote FTPS server and the issuer is not trusted in DCM, prompt the user to all to continue with the SSL connection Use Case: Send data
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 6 Delivered

Include TIME in LAST_DATE_TIME Used object attribute

The QUSROBJD and QGYOLOBJ APIs return the so called Last Used Timestamp. The field in the QSYSINC structure is literally named Last_Date_Time.However only the DATE is returned.The request is to either:(A) If that Time is being stored to return it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 4 Delivered

Checking for Optional Parameters in CLLE

Now that we have %ADDR and the *NULL keyword in CL/ILE, it would be awfully, awfully nice (for cross-language consistency) that since we have %PARMS, %PARMNUM, and the *BLANKS and *ZEROS keywords in RPG/ILE, that we could also have the same in CL/...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Delivered

Add NSLOOKUP type SQL service

I would like a service like those athttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=optimization-i-servicesThis service would allow me to doSELECT * FROM QSYS2.NSLOOKUP('www.mycorp.com', 'dns.google.com');I would also like it to not be dependent on having...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Zone tape drives to separate set of vFC and Physical FC ports other than the ones used for disk access

Currently PowerVC zones tape drives to same set of vFC and Physical adapters that are also accessing disks. But industry best practice does not allow this. As per best practice Tape drives are mapped to separate set of vFC and Physical FC ports to...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Navigator for i Warning icon explanation

The System Warning icon provides no information (on hover or via hyperlink) regarding the nature of the warning. I was forced to open a help desk ticket to inquire as to the reason for the warning. When hovering over the "Warning!" icon, it should...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

DRDA SM D Audit entry

The SM D entry in the Audit log logs that an RDB Entry has been changed (Access Type 'C'), but does not log what the change was. We would like to see whatever the change was actually logged Use Case: We have people making changes on a test server ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

Support for NFS v4 mounts on virtual I/O server

The current mount command of the the ioscli interface does not support the option '-o vers=4'. NFSv4 is now the industrial standard for NFS. NFS is uses to store for example virtual I/O server system backups (mksysb) to a NIM server. Using the vir...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Delivered

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