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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...
10 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Delivered

Valid JSON for passing options to SQL HTTP Function

The documentation for the SQL HTTP GET function states the following: > Sets an HTTP header in the HTTP request with the specified headername and headervalue. > This option can be specified multiple times to set multiple headers. The optio...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

vNIC backend deployment control

Todays networking standard on IBM PowerVM is moving towards the use of vNIC but today we lack the support to control how the SR-IOV and vNIC infrastructure is deployed using PowerVC. Today we have deployed 2 pair of VIO (4 vios) server where each ...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

TR level should be included in the front page of the RPG Reference

I'm saving a copy of the documentation for the ILE RPG Reference as a PDF-document on my PC. It is convenient when working off line or when the lines are slow. But I'm missing that the TR level is included in the front page (see attachment). It wo...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Delivered

Develop a IBM i Service for PRTPRFINT command

User profile internals *PCTFULL report provides percent full, owned object entries, private authority entries, authorized user entries, and primary group entries. This information is useful to find profiles that own object and have private authori...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Security 6 Delivered

Ability to adjust the desirability of a host within a host group, so new lpar deployments would always go to other hosts first until there is no other valid target host.

The ability to keep a hot-spare in the host group so that it's available in the event of the failure of another host and for maintenance. T he way it is now, we either have to LPM anymore lpars that land there, put into maintenance mode, or remove...
10 months ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add full statement pop up when hovering over Show Statements plan cache list of statements like iNav

When using Show Statements window and I have a list of SQL statements from the plan cache, I used to have a pop up window showing the full statement of the one I am hovering over in iNav.That does NOT happen when doing the same in ACS, SQL perform...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Hover : exclude comments from beeing shown on definitions

Actually the hover function shows comments that the editor thinks may be relevant to a definition. It picks up any comment lines immediately preceding the item being defined.It should be possible to stop that, for example by inserting one/two blan...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Additional Virtual Fiber Channel Cards

Individual virtual fiber channel cards, which are created per LPAR by PowerVC, can only support 32 or 64 LUNs (depending on the OS type/version). We often have machines that require hundreds of LUNs and it is very frustrating that we cannot do thi...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Need description field in Storage Template

In PowerVC there is no field for adding a description for a storage template e.g. Quality desciptorc etc.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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