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Calculating partition minimum memory in System Planning Tool

When planning the memory usage in a new LPAR'd Power System using the System Planning Tool the minimum memory allowed does not work when you actually build the partitions. The tool allows lower minimum memory than the actual install will allow. It...
over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 2 Delivered

Allow setup of SEP from Show View Menu in LPEX

While in LPEX session if one presses Ctrl+F10 you see a menu that allows for setting break points and other features. It would be nice to have an option there to populate the SEP dialog box before setting the SEP. Use Case: When in an LPEX session...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Migrating triggers when TGTRLS < N-2

Currently we can create triggers only with TGTRLS on N-2. For exemple if OS version is V7R1 we can use TGTRLS with V5R4, and when OS version is V7R3 we can use TGTRLS with V7R1.But when the table with trigger from a server V7R1 (with TGTRLS V5R4) ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Dealloc not allowing fully qualified name

I am storing a pointer in a data-structure subfield, where this subfield is also an array. The DEALLOC opcode does not allow for a full qualified field name, only simple ones. Use Case: De-allocating pointers part of a data-structure subfield arra...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

Can you please add Job_type to Get_Job_Info?

Can you please add Job_type to Get_Job_Info? Use Case: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1107217/1107217-6238504156156436481?midToken=AQE1P4HH_NHymA&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_of_digests-group_discussions-24-discussion~subject&trkEmail=eml-b2_an...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Request for SMB4 version to be available within the next Web download pack program or AIX expansion pack update

Due to the incompatibility of the Unix SMBCLIENT OUTBOUND connections using SMB2 protocol to systems using SMB3 protocol we require a compiled and packaged version of Samba >= 4.0.0.
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Better error details for iACS

The i Access Client Solutions product should give the user intelligible error messages. As is, it's giving useless error messages and IBM support has to review logs to determine the cause of the problem. Use Case: We were setting up a new PC. We t...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Hyperswap compatibility on PowerVC 1.4.4

Client is using SVC Hyperswap in their environment. They would like PowerVC Hyperswap compatibility with their SVC.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Deploy VM on specific host from PowerVC Northbound API

Without specified target host, PowerVC try to match the network id to the Host with same network id. If there is multiple Hosts has the same network(to support LPM), PowerVC will try deploy based on IP range. It failed if IP range does not match, ...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Local hard disk support for getupgfiles

Add an option to use local directory as the upgrade files source in getupgfiles command
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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