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IBM i Access Client Solutions - System Drop Down - List and Sort by System Description

The Host Names for the systems that I have configured are all sporadic and I'd like to keep all the systems for each client listed/grouped together. Using the Group Name feature helps... a little... but is a little cumbersome. It would be nice if ...
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Run SQL Scripts content assist enhancements

To help users find SQL functions, it would be helpful to enhance content assist. The following works by showing results when placing cursor before ) and pressing [Ctrl]+[Space]:select * from table();select * from table(schema.); Confusion is that ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Improve RSTAUT output and log

When restoring authorities it is often the case some cannot be restored. Checking exactly what hasn't been restored, is very time consuming. The RSTAUT command has no option for output to spool or file. The command should present the option to out...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 7 Future consideration

Performance Cycling at 12:00 AM on multiple Lpars cause CMC Enterprise core usage to peak lasting 800 microseconds giving very high average core usage

Let.s say you have purchased IBM CMC Enterprise Pools2.0 concept, and you have license for 10 core and 1 core credit. Your average per minute usage is between 6-7 core all day. But a 12:00 AM when performance collection is cycled on all your ibm i...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Submitted

Showing HMC NUMA Scoring in CMC

For customer it would be helpful to the Per LPAR the NUMA Scoring form HMC also in the CMC
over 4 years ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Future consideration

PowerVC Support With NetApp Storage

Banking customer has deployed NetApp (FAS8080) storage with AFF & FAS controllers. Currently CBS is deployed on AFF. And they are evaluating IBM Power8 E880 Systems for Core banking Software (Finacle 10.x).
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 5 Future consideration

Display fields and/or structures defined with TEMPLATE differently in the outline.

It's nice to know that a data element is a "data type" or "template" rather than usable storage. Also, if you have the knowledge available during editing, don't suggest TEMPLATE items in calculations. They're OK for like() and likeds(), %size(), t...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

RPGLE Language Server (Language Server Protocol)

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) was created by Microsoft in 2016 as an open-source protocol for use between source code editors or integrated development environments (IDEs) and servers that provide programming language-specific features like c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Change the QSYS2.IFS_READ Table Function to accept a variable as the Path Name

It would make the IFS_READ Table Function more useful when processing files received from REST API's.
9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Functionality already exists

Setting a specific SCG as default for better integration with orchestration solutions

The concept of an SCG is Power specific, so the default OpenStack API does not offer a direct way to provide the SCG during LPAR deployment. This creates a lot of work to integrate orchestration or DevOps solutions with PowerVC, because we have to...
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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