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Enable options(*exact) for indicators.

I am the developer of RPGUNIT and recently I added procedure assertEqual() to it. This procedure handles all data types, because it uses the OVERLOAD keyword for delegating the call to the procedure that is in charge for the data type. dcl-pr asse...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

watsonx and Openshift.ai support on Power. Early Acces Program (Beta testing)

We do have a potentially big oppy in Spain in INDRA. They work for Minitry of Defense and they are starting a project to deal with RADAR imaging where they want to use AI but, given the confidential characteristics of the data, they are promoting ...
4 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) 3 Future consideration

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
7 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration
129 VOTE

Provide sum of energy consumed and system temperature to HMC

Energy and environmental aspects are getting more and more into focus when discussing datacenter efficiency The Power High-End (in a minimum P10 and future and maybe P9 as well) systems should be enabled to expose temperature and energy charts th...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Enhance iNavigator to allow copy of user profile to other systems when it contains a group profile.

We would like to use iNavigator to copy user profiles from one system to many. This currently does not work if the user profile contains a group profile - which nearly 100% of user profiles do. Reference TS017839310 We consulted our Navigator deve...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Allow Simplified HMC based Remote Restart to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

Simplified HMC based Remote Restart is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and s...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Set IBM i tagged I/O via api/cli/ansible

The idea is based on setting up via api/cli or ansible tagged i/o for IBM i systems to allow automation of the deployment of such partitions
13 days ago in PowerVM 0 Submitted

Add command SQL service

The idea is based on the creation of a command-related SQL service. This service must return some information about the commands such as the program, source, and various parameters. In addition, it would be very important that it returns the defau...
13 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Create HMC JSON api

I'm wondering if it's possible to create new HMC's API working with JSON and not with XML. Other appliances (for example Storwize) are using this language for rest APIs.
13 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Enable RST PATTERN with object type

Sometimes we need to restore only the DIR structure (without *STMF object type) from a saved Ifs's folder (Cmd SAV). Using SUBTREE(*DIR) restore only the firt level of directory. Enabling the command to accept something like: RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/QG...
28 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Future consideration

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