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Missing CCSID 850/858 locale Settings for AIX 7.x

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale Settings for AIX 7.x Please note: A similar request has been already filed to the TXSERIES Group in August 2016 (RFE 92875).On 30th of November 2016 we have been informed, that this RFE needs to be addressed to the AIX...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

HMC command line history length change

In the current HMC version command line history length may contain only a stale commands number and it's impossible to change it via classical *NIX tools (e.g. add HISTSIZE/HISTFILESIZE exports to the hscroot user profile) or HMC command-line tool...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

ACS Provide ability to specify result tab "Name/Title" for each SQL Script SELECT statement

Using the Run SQL Scripts function of i Access Client Solutions, it is possible to create very complex SQL Select statements. When running a script with several SELECT statements a separate result tab is created for each SELECT statement. The name...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Debugging CL programs: Display variable content in Tooltip when mouse-hover

When debugging a CL programm, the content of variables is not displayed in the tooltip at mouse hover over a variable. Use Case: every debug of an CL program, when you want to see the content of a variable.
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

SNMP for large ASP/IASP

SNMP result for ASP/IASP size and allocation cannot go over 64 TB.The maximum disk unit size is 32768. Is possible increase this value to 65536 (max 128 TB) or more? Thanks Use Case: At the moment our iSeries has 45 TB IASP and we can monitor usin...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

issues with netcd

netcd is unable to handle the dynamic nature of the GSS (Global Site Selector) based DNS record/ TLL. when the DNS record becomes unavailable and netcd is handling the entry as ‘stale' entry in netcd's cache.When the DNS entry comesback online , n...
about 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Dynamic Storage QoS

Product: PowerVC PowerVC can integrate fabric and storage to PowerVM infrastructure to facilitate virtualization management. Current approach to configure quality of service for storage do not consider the capacity of storage space thus leading to...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Support compiler directives /if /endif for findMatch

resently, in RPGLE, findMatch will go to the corresponding start/end of a block for if, doX, etc as well as for (). Compiler directives /if, /endif are not supported currently. This RFE is asking that they be added for match and findMatch (ctrl-M ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

IP Pool Page: Lock range of IP addesses

PowerVC UI, IP Pool page, we can select an IP and Lock it. The issue here is that need to select Ip one by one and click the "Lock" button to lock it. if we provide an option to input IP range of address, really help to save time if we have more I...
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Enhancements to QDBSRV jobs

When the QDBSRV jobs are hours behind (have a large amount of requests to process) a rename of a library can take hours because a flush request is done to make sure all work for the QDBSRV jobs and IASP QDBSRV jobs are complete. Refer to PMR 20228...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered