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HMC - Check network setting before checking for system LIC upgrades

when checking for Power server LIC upgrades, HMC reported "No updates available on IBM Service web site". As we upgraded a different server on an other HMC there was some confusion.After some checking we found the HMC DNS/IP routing settings were ...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

iACS Ability to change passwords for multiple systems

Password management in iACS - allow for the changing of one or more system passwords at one time Use Case: In iACS - "Systems Configurations" does not give you the ability to change any passwords. This request would be for the following: - Add a "...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Access Client Solutions - What AcsConfig.properties is being used?

If you have more than one AcsConfig.properties file in the system how can you see in ACS what AcsConfig.properties is being used by ACS? It is easy to get information about the version of ACS and Java in the Help - Product information. Use Case: W...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Number of elements in a compile time array (CTDATA) should be determined at compile time

It happens that I have to use compile time arrays in programs. And every time I have to define the array with a fixed number of entries and have to remember to modify it if I add or remove an element in the CTDATA part. I would like to have the po...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Delivered

Display host code page on ACS 5250 session screen

I want to display the host code page on the ACS 5250 session screen.ACS has multiple Japanese host code pages. These are used appropriately according to the purpose. Therefore, I need to know which code is set. Use Case: Windows settings
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

PowerVC to map initiators with DS8884 HA ports across I/O enclosures to achieve high availability & load balancing

Current Situation:Customer is using PowerVC 1.3.2 to enable cloud based infrastructure. Customer is using Power8 E880 servers & DS8884 storage system which is integrated with PowerVC. While deploying new VM, PowerVC maps each initiator with a ...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

ACS Emulator Target Address Functionality

IBM i Access Client SolutionsIn the bottom right corner of the 5250 emulator is a field that displays the target IP address or host name and port of the current connection. My request is to implement the ability to copy this information to the hos...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Allow sha1sum to hscroot

Please allow access to sha1sum command for hscroot (like sum ).A symbolic link to /usr/bin/sha1sum in /usr/hmcrbin could be trick.
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Let QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL also generate the system name for SQL global variable

Currently the QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL() procedure does not generate the FOR SYSTEM NAME part when it generates the source for an SQL Global Variable. When a variable is recreated based on the output of this procedure it will generate a system name, whi...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

PowerVC and SRIOV vNIC improvements for high availability

Currently when PowerVC identify two SRIOV adapter for vNIC(Primary/Backup), it only consider slot/adapter and port. Because of that it picks up the adapters from same CEC which is not the best practice to have high availability for system with mul...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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