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RPG - New BIF for comparing data structures

Based on this discussion: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=81260576-dab9-4955-b19b-a2c4b4130cd3&ps=25 Would like a BIF to compare corresponding fields in data structures. This would be a field-by-field comparis...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Future consideration

PDF/A urgently needed!!

We really urgently need the possibility to create PDF/A documents as defined in ISO standard, because of our huge PDF archive (3500 PDF files daily). If we want to to store PDF documents in archive for 10 years(10y x 270 days x 3500 PDFs), we must...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Print 8 Future consideration

Enable no-auditing of /tmp like QTEMP

Please change audit code to not audit any activity in /tmp direcotry when system value QAUDLVL has option *NOQTEMP set - or by adding a new option *NOIFSTMP. As this directory is to be used for temporary files by design like objects in QTEMP this...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 8 Future consideration

vdisk_protection_enabled in IBM i PowerHA environments

This is the corresponding RFE to RFE number 141546 but for IBM i side.Spectrum Virtualize (be it flashsystems or SVC) introduced feature to restrict LUNS from being unmapped or deleted from storage when there was I/O in last XX minutes.This featur...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Future consideration

HMC GUI - choose specific FC adapter on target VIOS

A customer has multiple Fibre Channel connections to SAN Fabric A on VIOS#1 and VIOS#2 has multiple connections to SAN Fabric B. Using the command line migrlpar it is possible to specify the target VIOS and specific FC adapter port. Can the HMC GU...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Need HMC function opening a PMR and upload pedbg etc. to IBM

We would like to see function via CLI and GUI to create a PMR Salesforce ticket at IBM and to upload pedbg and other collections to the ticket systems in a new or already existing PMR
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Allow CALLSUBR on EXEC() parm of global MONMSG

Currently, a global MONMSG can only have GOTO in the EXEC() parameter. With the addition of subroutines in CL, it would be beneficial to allow the CALLSUBR opcode in the EXEC() parameter to invoke a generic error handling routine. Use Case: Allowi...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Future consideration

Allow SQL name when declaring a data structure

Allow a data structure declaration to use a SQL name Use Case: dcl-ds thirdPT extName('THIRDPARTYTABLESQLNAME') alias qualified;end-Ds;
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

Copy To Archive File (CPYTOARCF) Enhancement

Please enhance the CPYTOARCF command so that it takes the specified directory as the root directory in the zip file. Example 1: CPYTOARCF FROMFILE('/home/raddatz/temp/ziptest')TOARCF('/home/raddatz/temp/ziptest.zip') In this case the first directo...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 4 Future consideration

Would like to see NVMe over TCP/IP supported in the IBM Power Hardware and IBM Storage offering lines

NVMe/TCP is to provide a low latency, shared storage solution to take advantage of existing high speed network infrastructure. Would like to see this supported within the VIOS so that all supported OS's ( AIX / IBM i / Linux on Power ) can take ad...
over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 7 Future consideration