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allow user storage limit to be exceeded while saving journaled objects

Allow user storage limitations to be exceeded while saving journaled objects.Lets assume we have one or more users with limited storage MAXSTG(). This user owns a library and a journal. When saving objects in the library, journal entries Y/YS or D...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 4 Not under consideration

Single Sign on

we have a third party single signon for most of our windows apps, we would like to be able to have single signon also for IBM i , we currently can get the credentials to go, with no emulation or get the emulation to a signon screen. we cannot pass...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

SQL - parse char string using external definition

Many times, in existing customers ERPs, there are fields where structured information is stored in a single big CHAR string. Usually the intent is to have a generic data carrying field in the same table, where the type of information is stored in ...
12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Provide a V5R4M5 Virtual Machine Environment

There are a huge number of customers locked onto V5R4 due to the change in the LIC that cannot upgrade to new versions. MANY of these customers are stuck with no vendor support and have no capability of moving to anything newer than POWER6 hardwar...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL join with USING need to support nullable column

I have a problem with a JOIN when columns are nullable. summary: I ask for an correction of the USING feature : in the sql engine do a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM when the column is nullable, so USING will do its job. details: for a better explanation, y...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Provide a secure AIX provisioning process

Modify the AIX provisioning process so that TFTP and NFS are not required and AIX use HTTPS or another secure protocol.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Small Independent Disk Pools

The idea is to enable the configuration of small independent auxiliary storage pools from partial disk units on a single IBM i server. This idea appears to be similar to the ability to create micro partitions and host many IBM i instances on a sin...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration

Change the Format of downloads on ESS website to ISO

The industry standard for DVDs is ISO and it would be easier to have the downloads in this format. Use Case: Standard windows software doesn't have the UDF format as a source and makes creating DVDs more difficult.
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 5 Not under consideration

system readyness check for BMC-based systems on HMC

there is no „ readyness check „ for BMC-based systems in HMC-GUI. system readiness : updlic -o k -command did not give valid result.The command-result : " HSCF0281E BMC based systems must be powered off before performing a firmware update " is ful...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

IBM and Huawei SAN Disk MPIO

IBM Deosn't recognized Huawei SAN Disk with using basic MPIO in maintenance mode. When client server boot in maintenance mode, rootvg disks presented from Huawei storage appears with multiple disk due to the basic MPIO of AIX cant combine Huawei m...
12 months ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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