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ACS - provide option when defining .hod to allow optional loading into common screen or its own detached group tabs

For those of us who need to work with multiple systems/LPARs, starting 5250 sessions either loads into 1 screen or all are loaded into separate screens grouped by the system being logged in to? Use Case: I have defined multiple batch sessions. Eac...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

SNMPWALK should also return the IASP number in their result

SNMPWALK currently only return:HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.2 = STRING: Independent ASPHOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.3 = STRING: Independent ASP When there are now more than one iASP on the system with the same size, it's hard to find o...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Delivered

Remove 'ping' as product requirement (be able to bypass 'ping' results)

Currently, when adding HMCs to VMR and when performing discovery/verification of storage agent, VMR performs a 'ping' to determine if the HMC or storage agent is up/operational. If the 'ping' fails, VMR does not proceed to configuring HMC or fails...
over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

IBM VM Recovery Manager needs to accept special characters in HMC passwords

Brian:There might be some low hanging fruit for this issue.Does the HMC password you are trying to use contain any special characters?There is an APAR that addresses that issue but the fix is not yet available.The work-around is to change the HMC ...
over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 3 Delivered

Integrate Pure Storage Cinder driver into PowerVC

Please integrate the Pure Storage Cinder driver into PowerVC. Pure Storage is a core Cinder team member and has had in-tree Cinder drivers in OpenStack since the Juno release.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

ACS Automatic Copy function should not require the trim rectangle to remain

In ACS 1.1.9.3, turning on "Automatic Copy" from the Edit --> Preferences --> Edit --> Cut/Copy tab also forces "Trim Rectangle remains after edit function" in the Trim tab to be turned on. I submitted a support case and I was told this i...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

edit/browse toggle in LPEX

I would like to be able to toggle between browse mode and edit mode without closing the source member. Use Case: I might have a member open in the LPE editor and have several different views open. Shame to have to close all that just because I ori...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Customizeable Tooltips

Need more useful Tooltips in charts. Use Case: Chart with number of visits as measure, sales region as dimension, and fiscal year as legend. On hover, user sees "2017 8:4". Tooltip needs to show "FY 2017, Week 8, Visits 4".
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 1 Delivered

ACS File Transfer with No Line Ending Characters

Please add an option in the advanced File Details under format options to exclude line endings from the file being downloaded. Use Case: There are files created by our core software system that we need to download as text files that already have t...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Enable IBMI V7R2 EDGE server for Electronic service Agent

We are required to setup IBM ESA successful for V7R3 and DS8886/Power E880 HMC, but can't setup successful in V7R2. Use Case: for customer at banking environment , we can't open too many IP & port for ESA. We are able to open firewall for esup...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Delivered

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