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Request additional setup options in ACS

We need additional option to the setup of workstations in ACS. The options available to a savvy but maybe wreckless user, are frightening. In terms of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), we need to lock down what a user can do or give themselves access to, exam...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add Orion to Yum repository

Please add Orion to Yum rpm repository. It was/is available as 5733OPS licensed product but not as rpm package. Use Case: There is no development tool on IBM i for open source languages. It would be nice to have a server based development tool, li...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

IBM i handle disk timeout error during VIOS outage and dump

IBM i to the disk I/O time out error recovery processing when a VIOS partition is unresponsive allowing faster fail over to another available path.'
almost 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 4 Future consideration

Prefix or Qualified Keyword for Exports and/or Prototypes

Currently exported identifiers (procs, functions, variables, data-structures) need to be unique across an application framework. This is a massive obstacle in modernization efforts. For proper modernization and modern programming approach it is ab...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Future consideration

STRSST / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / Select Analysis Report Options

STRSST / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / Select Analysis Report Options: I like to add additional sysrefcodes to the list in the screen below so that I can omit these sysref codes from the list. But when I add sysref 6B253400 as third entry it is not stored perma...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Future consideration

Allow variable number of arguments on SQL CONCAT function

The current implementation of CONCAT only allows two parameters, for example CONCAT('hello', 'world') which makes concatenating multiple values cumbersome. This would for example result in CONCAT(CONCAT('hello', 'world'), 'again') for 3 strings. I...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

Preview tool requested for chfs and allocp

A way to run chfs / allocp in a preview mode would be extremely useful. It has been found that attempts to expand striped logical volumes can fail in seemingly random fashion. This makes the success of the operation unpredictable which can be cost...
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

cascading storage groups for EMC/Dell storage should be an option, not forced.

Sometime back IBM changed PowerVC to force cascading storage groups which caused extreme difficulty to the point of making PowerVC unusable in our EMC Storage array environment. Even after redommissioning PowerVC (with regret), we were migrating 5...
5 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Make ibm more strong

Because ibm acadmic website is too buffer
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 1 Not under consideration

Globalization/Secondary languages considerations when upgrading the IBM i

Good day. Many IBM i systems use secondary languages that need to be taken into consideration when planning to upgrade the IBM i OS. If your machine uses secondary languages, the LPPs languages must also be upgraded to the newer version, the langu...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

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