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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...
over 7 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

We would like the VLANs to not be clean up after upgrade of PowerVC or LPM of VM

Why does the VLAN disappear after a successful migration, causing the VM to lose network connectivity from time to time. We are aware of the workaround: automated_powervm_vlan_cleanup=false https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/687597 We would li...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

CLDOWNLOAD Plug-In SQL support for 'column AS header'

The SQL statement, in the CDDOWNLOAD plugin is enclosed between double quotes ("), restricting the use of the SELECT... AS... clause, to assign a different column header, limiting the scope of the statement. Use Case: Most of the time, when transf...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

SQL Formatting options

Please allow for the selection of formatting features on a per user basis. Right now when you format SQL it performs all actions of formatting. Use Case: In ACS RSS tool, Edit, SQL Formatter, configure. In the open dialog I would like the ability ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 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

Allow PTF application after certain abnormal IPLs

Allow PTFs to be applied after an abnormal IPL (QABNORMSW set), if the cause was a job being ended with ENDJOBABN. Use Case: PTF application in the real world.
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 3 Delivered

API or SQL view for WRKCMTDFN

Create an API or SQL view corresponding to the command WRKCMTDFN JOB (* ALL) STATUS (* PENDING). Use Case: We need to identify jobs that are waiting of commit validation. The goal is to stop jobs that are likely to prevent the synchronization poin...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

topasrec data for etherchannel adapter physical ports

topasrec reports data only for etherchannel adapters and not report the data for its physical ports."topas -E" reports data for etherchannel adapter physical ports but cannot be recorded to file (interactive only).
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Request ACS5250 emulator to enable ENTFLDATR on Bypass Field

The implementation of the IBM i ACS 5250 emulator has disabled a feature that exists within the Personal Communications based emulators. Specifically, it does not allowing highlighting a field that is a bypass field. This was done to follow the 54...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

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