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NEW D-Specifications from selected text

Would like to be able to generate D-spec fields from selected text The New menu will not appear when text is selected. It seems like it would be a productivity improvement if the selected text could appear in the name input of any of the New menu ...
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

PowerVC does not utilize multiple IO groups.

PowerVC is currently deploying ALL virtual machines with NPIV zoning only to V7000 IO Group 0. IO Group 1 is not be utilized for client connections.
about 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN

For the storage template of the SVC (storwize) the client needs to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN of the storage template. We know that there is the advance...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Allow pwage expiration > 180 on user defined policy

When configuring user defined policy on HMC most values are configurable to what is needed to conform to our company password policy but pwage is not configurable to 365 or 99999. It is restricted to up to 180 days.
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(100) fails if input record is less than 100.

RUNSQLSTM fails if SRCDTA column width is less than RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(100). Use Case: We wanted to use full statement length of QDDLSRC. 1) Copied RUNSQLSTM command to another library and changed command default to MARGIN(228). 2) CRTSRCPF QDDLSRC ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Report formats (details / summary) for single compliance scan

Reports generated after compliance scan - Currently we have mail1,mail2,mail3,mail4 -> mapped to single alert style(either 0,1,2)we want like mail1,mail3 -> alert style 1mail2,mail4 -> alert style 3This can help avoiding multiple scan run...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

Have PowerSC send SNMP traps on a customizable port

Have PowerSC send SNMP traps on a customizable port, default 162. This could be as easy as having a port number in the config file rather than querying the remote system to reply with a port.
about 7 years ago in PowerSC 1 Delivered

Removal of Profile from Agent

Question : If a profile is deleted on PowerSC server but it is still showing greyed out some times.Response from IBM - PowerSC does not automatically “push” deletion of a profile to every endpoint. For example, you create customProfile1 and push i...
over 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

Consolidated Project View

System: Rational Developer for Power Systems ProjectActor: User needing new feature The iProject view is commonly used for development of RPG applications. Many applications have a variety of architectures that are required for development, many w...
over 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

alt_rootvg_op export flag (-X) should sleep the volume group first automatically.

alt_rootvg_op export flag (-X) should sleep the volume group first automatically. Failure to do so causes severe damage to the alternate. The same rationale was used to create IV89318, in which failure to sleep before rebooting would similarly des...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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