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VM snapshot and restore features on PowerVC

Would like to see VM snapshot and restore features on PowerVC GUI or command line
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Download .MBR files doesn't convert to ASCII

When using "Integrated File system" program and I download a member file from /QSYS.LIB/AWPDEV.LIB/qrpglesrc.file, the resulting file isn't in ASCII and is unreadable. If I try to view the file it crashes the entire Client Solutions program and no...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Delivered

Deliver nginx webserver in 5733OPS

The nginx web server(n1) is a very popular web server that we (Krengeltech) have been using in production for almost a year on spaces.litmis.com. It works great and setup can be automated (including the use of letsencrypt.org). That is much harder...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

SQL Extended Indicators in MAIN Stored Procedure

We have used SQL Extended Indicators in RPG/ILE for years and find them to be very useful -- including saving a lot of lines of code. For the first time, we tried to use the Extended Indicators in an SQL MAIN stored procedure and find that they ar...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

Pipenv for IBM i

Pipenv is a tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds (bundler, composer, npm, cargo, yarn, etc.) to the Python world. It merges pip (which you support) and virtualenv (which it seams you currently don't), together to work in unison...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

keep ACS splash screen up until emulator window appears.

Keep a splash screen open while loading ACS. Do not remove the splash screen until the emulation session if fully active. The windows client has this. Use Case: users tend to click on the icon repeatedly if application does not load in 1 or 2 seco...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Add new POLLEXCL flag for poll() function to solve thundering herd problem. Flag logic like EPOLLEXCLUSIVE for linux epoll()

We have developed multiprocessing middleware named Enduro/X, where several processes may listen for messages on several ipc queues (SystemV for example). Processes are using poll() to wait for event in some queue. Work on queues may be load balanc...
over 4 years ago in AIX 8 Delivered

Open NetServer in IBM Navigator for i

IBM Navigator for i doesn't have the option to open the NetServer. System i Navigator (iNav) has this, but end of life has been announced for that tool. In iNav, the right-click popup menu for NetServer has an option for "Open i5/OS NetServer", bu...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

p7zip RPM on AIX toolbox for Linux applications

we have some LPARs that need p7zip and we are currently using the RPM coming from Micheal Perzl, since we are switching all RPM to only use the ones coming from AIX toolbox for Linux application, it would be helpful to have it. Also I guess is a c...
about 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

fcstat and underlying APIs - time series data

It would be great if fcstat could at least give time-series output (like vmstat, iostat, etc.) for at least one interface at a time. Having a "-a" flag (or similar) to get time-series performance/capacity data for all of the HBAs in the system at ...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered