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PowerVC NetApp as storage provider

Currently NetApp is not one of the available storage providers for NPIV disk. As I understand NetApp has Openstack drivers available,so it should be possible to add NetApp as one of the storage providers in PowerVC
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Record names in subprocedures

RDi has its Code Competion helping the programmer a lot with competing variables, record names and procedures. When programming in subprocedures, the completion doesn't work always at it does in the main cycle.When including files into a subproced...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Add Parm for STRAUTCOL to allow for more object types have their minimum needed authority collected.

i understand that the type of objects that are allowed to be selected for authority collection is, for performance/chatter reasons, narrow.I propose adding another parm along the lines of the "Include DLO" and "Include file system objects" the wou...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

OSS wish list for YUM on IBM i

My wish list for IBM i OSS on YUM Repositories: * GNUPlot* AutoSSH* QREncode* MySQL (client)* Pigz compressor* P7Zip compressor* Lynx Browser* Links Browser* Midnight Commander* VNC & ICEWM* CREATEREPO #IBMi #YUM #OSS Use Case: With createrepo...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

IBM and Huawei SAN Disk MPIO

IBM Deosn't recognized Huawei SAN Disk with using basic MPIO in maintenance mode. When client server boot in maintenance mode, rootvg disks presented from Huawei storage appears with multiple disk due to the basic MPIO of AIX cant combine Huawei m...
about 1 year ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

We need help for LDAP configuration

We have configured the LDAP client on AIX server but unable to get user details from AD server. As per IBM team we need to made changes at AD server end but we have more than 2000 users and we cant made changes for every user So we need your help....
over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing Rational Developer for Power

I think that a nice way to improve the project perspective in RDp for RPG projects or the RSE perspective, would be to be able to link diferent sources together. Right now you can right click over a source file and add a new source member, and tha...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Allow for "Per user support" for the LISTFMT() parm on CHGFTPA

in the CHGFTPA command setting the LISTFMT() parm affects *ALL usersWe need an option not in a FTP exit program that provides for more granular support Use Case: with new open source technologies defaulting the LISTFMT(*UNIX) can have detrimental ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Not under consideration

Declare Array variables in SQL/PSM like in DB2 LUW

In stored procedures and UDF/UDTF of DB2 for i, I would like to be able to declare an array like in this example : DECLARE TYPE CARD_NUMBER AS VARCHAR(1) ARRAY [24]; … this is already possible on DB2 LUW, as can be seen in this example: https://ro...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Application for i Access - Client Solutions

Is IBM creating a application to change the Java Based app for i Access - Client Solutions? Use Case: Used for Windows connection to IBM i.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

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