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VIOS Maintenance Mode

The new VIOS Maintenance Mode should address the following requirements:1. Possibility to set the VIOS in maintenance mode with one click (for example through the HMC UI)2. Automatic failover of all SEA to backup VIOS (chdev -dev entX -attr ha_mod...
over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Delivered

IBM i Service to List Disabled Netserver Users

Currently, there is no way to list from an IBM i command the user that at disabled for use by Netserver. An IBM i Service to list the currently disabled users, and if possible re-enable them would be an ideal replacement. I accept that the Go Nets...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 9 Delivered

Support of Dual HMC in PowerVC

currently in PowerVC you cannot configure two HMC for the same pSeries systems.i would like to see this feature because when only one is configured and this HMC is under maintenance for any reason the powervc doesnt work for all machines connected...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

Change default for PowerVC Host Maintenance Mode Panel

'Enter Maintenance mode panel' on PowerVC GUI has 'Migrate all virtual machines to another host' selected as default - requesting that this is either set to 'None' by default or a configurable parameter to allow customer to chose what the default ...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Modernize Application Administration Interface in Navigator for i

The Application Administration interface i Navigator for i is old and klunky. It is also slow and unusable. The biggest problem is selecting a user profile - there is no search/find box and the list displays all user profiles on the system, which ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

Add new BIFs %max() and %min()

While I can easily create sub-procedures to handle these functions, I can't create a single max or min sub-procedure to handle all numerical combinations, or a true variable numbers of parameters. Please add %min(1: 2: ... : n), and %max(1: 2: ......
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Delivered

System Driver program *IBMSNMPDRV does not support SNMPv3

When changing from SNMPv1 or SNMPv2 to SNMPv3 printing stops functioning on printers that worked successfully on previous versions of SNMP Use Case: Due to vulnerabilities in SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 customers are moving to SNMPv3 and existing IBMi print...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Print 4 Delivered

IFS 1MB View limitation

In ACS the IFS functionality allows you to view a file with the options "View" and "View...".When selecting one of these two, the size of the file you are able to view is limited to 1 MB.In the case you select a file for viewing which is larger, t...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Allow IWS to ignore extra/missing fields in the input JSON

Ignoring extra fields is helpful so that the RPG program doesn't have to account for every field that is being sent in the request (i.e. 25+ fields and multiple nested data structure arrays, when only 2 values are actually required). Allowing for ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

IFS_DELETE SQL Service

Create a IFS_delete, IFS_DELETE_UTF8 and IFS_delete_Binary sql services. Use Case: We have IFS_read and IFS_write but, we currently don't have a IFS_delete. For ease of use and consistency, please consider implementing this SQL service.
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

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