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LLVM for AIX

LLVM (https://llvm.org/) is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. It is used as an engine for the new IBM Open XL C/C++ compiler 17.1, but also for several other modern programming languages, such as Rust. Unfor...
over 2 years ago in Power Ecosystem Software / All components 2 Delivered

Add UTF-8 support to smbc.rte

Some clients require support for UTF-8 file name encoding. Currently, smbc.rte does not provide this functionality--only characters in the range 0-127 decimal will work when UTF-8 file name encoding is chosen.
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Always make Run SQL Scripts available, not just when in SQLRPGLE source

Being able to access Run SQL Scripts in RDi is great. But it'd be better if I didn't have to open a SQLRPGLE source to do so. Use Case: I use SQL to query data quite a lot and it's not always related to when I work on SQLRPGLE source.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Provide a means to discover NTP status

There are means to configure the HMC to sync to external NTP time servers, but there is no way to demonstrate that the HMC NTP configuration was actually successful. There are some NTP messages logged to /var/log/messages, but those logs are insuf...
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Named indicator should appear in the Fields section of the Outline view

Currently named variables of type N are shown under the indicator category in the Outline view.Consensus in the WDSC-I Midrange list is that developers consider this type of variables should be under the Fields category like other variables. There...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

HMC: Add functions to "Enhanced +" view currently only available in "Classic" view.

Trying to do dynamic lpar and create a new virtual scsi adapter and there is no such option in the Enhanced View.IBM says the wave of the future is command line and no one uses GUI.I beg to differ.<snip>HMC ENHANCED+ GUI When using the enhan...
almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

LVM hardening to prevent non-detection of bad blocks in mirrored LVs

LVM mirroring can delay detection of errors on the secondary copy until the primary copy fails - leading to outages. Particularly with parallel or parallel/sequential policy and LVs with low write rates, the disk with the second copy gets relative...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

SYSDISKSTAT: Add percent busy

Disks are getting hammered on one system on rare occasion. IBM denies any culpability. Therefore I need way to know when to IPL system when the percent busy of the disks gets out of hand.Please add percent busy to sysdiskstat service Use Case: Mon...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Add Job Temporary Storage metric to Properties for top contributing jobs for Temporary Storage Utilization

Using Graph History to show Temporary Storage Utilization over time and discover consistent growth over time. Zoom in to see details and find the top contributors - a list of jobs is produced, and I can then click on a job to review its properties...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 3 Delivered

ACS - clear keyboard buffer when showing RSS results

When the result of a SQL statement in Run SQL Script is shown, the keyboard buffer is not cleared and the result window will pickup the next keystroke in the buffer. This is very annoying when the next keystroke is F5 - especially when the SQL sta...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

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