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520 Byte Sector Storage Support on EXP24SX

EXP24SX expansion unit should support 520 byte sector storage devices (both HDD and SSD) for IBM i. Only 4K byte storage is currently supported, but sales team needs to pay special attention to its performance, which may spoil their productivity. ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 3 Not under consideration

Add exit point for job message queue full event

IBM has provided the very useful SQL table function QSYS2.JOBLOG_INFO to return the messages in a job log (we also have the messaging API's, but I will focus on JOBLOG_INFO here because of its ease of use). JOBLOG_INFO can be used to investigate w...
10 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

HTTP logging of HTTP_GET_VERBOSE and HTTP_POST_VERBOSE

When consuming a web service using the SQL based HTTP_GET_VERBOSE and HTTP_POST_VERBOSE, it would be extremely helpful to get a full log of the HTTP communication to the web service much like the LIBHTTP tools allowed for. Currently there is a way...
10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

powervc to hmc ssh pubkey authentication

Currently, connection from PowerVC to HMC console is defined using: IP address, username and password.I'd like that PowerVC authenticates on HMC console using SSH key pair.
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

add a new audit field to the SQL fields

I would like to be able to get the program name that updated/inserted a row in SQL in a generated always field. Today we can add the job, user, timestamp, ... automatically but not the name of the program. It would be more complete if we could add...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

PowerVC services/binaries/config/logs - owner by non-root user

Once PowerVC is running, if it does not change RHEL OSI settings, does the product need to run as root?It is difficult to obtain root access to production systems, so collecting logs, performing backups, etc is extremely difficult to do when the p...
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Customize encryption types for network authentication

When creating new keytab entries, the OS will automatically create entries for all known encryption types on the system: 56-bit DES 56-bit DES using key derivation 168-bit DES using key derivation 128-bit AES 256-bit AES ARCFOUR Since onl...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Future consideration

Keep the filters up

In capacity monitoring for example, I would like to keep my filters actives when clicking on one of the objects of the filter and going back
5 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

AIX should provide a method to notify the SRC that a daemon restart is triggered externally

Provide a method for daemons, that an externally triggered restart (for example from a remote system) of a daemon is "ok" for the SRC daemon.
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

RDi Allow viewing debug variable values from Outline View

It would be so useful if right clicking a variable in the Outline View in debug mode would display the variable's contents, or perhaps other various debug options. Use Case: If I need to view a field that exists in the program but isn't referenced...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

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