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Enable Shared Processor Pool within PEP 2.0

In the current implementation of PEP 2.0, the processor resources available in operation are composed of the respective Base Activations per machine and the additional credits. The limit of the usable resources corresponds to the total installed p...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to Run Sql scripts to enter qualifed name for Insert Generated SQL

Clicking ADD and navigating through Schemas can take long and be tedious when having to do more than one a day. Please give ability to enter /qsys.lib/mylib.lib/mytable.file, etc. so I can just type it in.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Script to change signed certificates on PowerSC MFA server.

It will be easy and mutliple step executions could be avoided providing a comprehensive way to change the CA signed certificates on MFA servers. We should be just able to provide the .pem certicate file to the script and the script should then con...
6 months ago in PowerSC 1 Planned for future release

Option to have 'key:value' pair tags in Power HMC.

HMC V10R3 allows to define LPAR description and group tags, but it is not possible to create the tags in the 'key:value' format. This is a standard format on other platforms and already adopted on IBM Cloud. There are several modernization, monito...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

lvmstat that can gather MWC stats

We need a custom lvmstat that can gather MWC stats, that would would work like this: To enable mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -me To disable mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -md To clear mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -mC To que...
12 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

options(*exact) indicator should accept *on and *off

Declaring an indicator on a procedure parameter using options(*exact) restricts calling processes to passing in '1' and '0' literal strings. I think this should accept the special values *on and *off. This currently does not compile. I believe the...
5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Is a defect

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
20 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

Create IMAGE based upon ISO

Just as it is possible to create a VIOS image based upon ISO files within "Templates and OS Images" section in HMC it would be nice if it was possible to do the same with other operating systems aswell at the "Partition" section.
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Cloud Storage Solutions for i 5733ICC - Multi-threaded downloads

I've configured the mutil-threaded uploads for this product and it made a significant improvement to the upload times. It would be beneficial to be able to do this for the downloads.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

Add user registry and TAI to RSE APIs

Hello, Concerning the use of Remote System Explorer APIs (RSE API), we currently use basic authentication + a session. This opens up many possibilities (IFS access, SQL queries, CL command calls, etc.) to all users (within the limits of thei...
3 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

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