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ACS Enhancement

Would it be possible to add to the 5250 screen under Action dropdown the ability to access the DCM once it has been changed by editing the LPAR(s) under the tab Hardware Management Interface and selecting Digital Certificate Manager? Use Case: the...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Improve performance when filtering QSYS2.OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES_BASIC

Improve performance when filtering QSYS2.OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES_BASIC (or QSYS2.OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES) using only a qualified job name. If compared with QGYOLSPL Api both views are very slow. Use Case: Handling job's spools.
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Port cron to PASE

Having the cron(n1) tool would keep PASE developers from having to shoe horn scheduling into the WRKJOBSCDE. The crontab(n2) would also need to be included. n1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronn2 - https://kb.iu.edu/d/afiz Use Case: Having the ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

Additional information in outline/content assist

Include the optional, yet often-used, "name" space on the D-spec for prototyped parameters in the outline and content assist. Many programmers put descriptive names on those prototypes to identify the purpose of the parameter; carrying it into the...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered

Comment tagging for SR-IOV and FC/vFC

in SR-IOV we can define a comment field for FC adapter and vFC adapter in the LPAR in AIX and VIOS. This would be useful to tag fabrics , usage etc.
over 6 years ago in PowerVM 4 Delivered

Create button in HMC to receive VIOS snap

In HMC it would be nice to have a menu entry for creating a snap for VIO Servers.These snaps are usually only needed for IBM support cases. It should be possible by one click to create and store or email a snap from VIOS.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Extend Qc3CalculateHash to be able to use SHA3 (FIPS 202)

We use Qc3CalculateHash API to create xml invoicedata hashes, which are needed for data exchange with the hungarian tax office. For now we have to use SHA-512 (FIPS 180-2) hashing algorithm, but as of April 1st 2020 the hungarian tax office is cha...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Delivered

The use of a generic parameter for the library name does not work when trying to restore multiple libraries from a BRMS backup. At times we need to restore hundreds of libraries but the parameter only works if the library exists. We believe this is a FLAW.

IBM Development can review case TS015071289 for further reference and documentation. As stated, this generic restore option should work and it should either be removed from the command prompt OR some commentary put of the HELP text to state that i...
9 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Delivered

VMRM - make hardcoded timeout interval tunable parameter.

Based on communication with support team dealing with case TS011408072 we would like to rise this idea. In a VMRM 'HA' Cluster, after a failover, there's a hard coded 5 minute timeout for AIX VMs to IPL and start again heartbeating with the VIOSes...
almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Delivered

Add the ability to work with shares on iACS Integrated File System

Add the ability to manage shares when using the itegrated file system on iACS. Using GO NETS just does not give us the granularity needed. Use Case: With the ibm access for windows using navigator you could work with/create/manage shares. I have n...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 8 Delivered

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