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RSE API's - swagger or yaml file

Hello, Would it be possible to have the swagger or a yaml file available? This would facilitate the integration of calls to these APIs in external software capable of scripting and automating certain tasks.
6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Functionality already exists

implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs.

Implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs. When a node failure occurs on the service machine and the shared disk created by AIX LVM mirror is taken over to the standby machine, syncvg is forced using t...
over 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

Add the ability to execute a custom AcsConfig.properties in a specific folder when calling acsbundle.jar

I have to deploy ACS in a customer Citrix environnement, with different categories of user and with specific needs (limited access to IFS folders, no SQL client connections for just one category, ...).My intent would be to create as many AcsConfig...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Enable Virtual Serial Number (VSN) for Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

As currently defined, a Virtual Serial Number (VSN) can only be used once for a single LPAR, with cores fully assigned. This approach significantly limits flexibility. For example, consider a scenario with three LPARs, each assigned 0.4 cores. The...
5 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Possibility to create IFS objects filters

Because many sources for IBM objects e.g programs, commands can be stored in IFS directories, it would be good to have possibility to define IFS directories and files filters like ones available for objects.
9 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Correct the Documentation and Termnology for Character vs Byte Count on things like %LEFT

I would like to propose a refinement to the terminology used in the documentation for the third parameter of %LEFT, %RIGHT, and other RPG IV built-in functions that handle multi-byte characters. Currently, the terms NATURAL and STDCHARSIZE are use...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted

Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers

For Power9 Ubuntu was supported for Novalink. For Power10 it is not, and only RHEL is supported and it is not free. We need to have Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers. Ubuntu 22.04 is a long term support so it is worth ...
over 2 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 6 Future consideration

change *ALLOBJ authority needed to drop columns using the ACS schemas editing interface

When you change a table (drop a column) through the ACS grapical interface you need *ALLOBJ to do so.The reason is that ACS adds and removes an autoreply (needing *ALLOBJ) to handle the inquiry message to confirm the drop (data loss) CPA32B2.When ...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Navigator add own monitor

In Navigator there is the ability to define monitors that are managed directly by the system and are based on certain metrics such as free disk space capacity, CPU usage, etc. In addition, there is the ability to monitor message queues, defining m...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

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