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Add number of upload/download threads for "Work with IFS" action.

when uploading or downloading files using the IFS "action". When I choose any number of files the program will try and upload/download all the files at one time. this can/has caused issues on the PC. Please add an option, to limit the number of co...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 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.
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 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, ...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 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...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

option to avoid volume formatting (like in SVC)

in SVC, there is a feature, "-nofmtdisk", to avoid new volumes formatting. It would be good to enable this feature also on type "generic" PowerVC Storage Templates. Currently, SVC always formats volumes created by PowerVC. thank you very much in a...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 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

VM Recovey Manager DR Release 1.5

We have discovered 3 problems up to now: 1. The DR site must have at least one session for global mirror (lssession output check)2. There can not be common LUN IDs between the source and destination LUNs3. The flashcopies for global mirror can not...
about 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Enhance CMPPFM command

We currently use the CMPPFM command to provide an initial "sanity check" that data is replicated via our software correctly. DB2 tables have used this without issue until we had a requirement to support BLOB column types where the CMPPFM command f...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Utilization trend graphs for selected lpars

For the moment, you can get utilization trend graphs on a managed system level. It could be interesting to generate a graph with trend utilization for CPU and memory on selected lpars and not all of them.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

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