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Provide the option to schedule the repeated monthly job from HMC GUI

I would like to schedule the monthly job(first day of each month) from HMC GUI. But it seems to me that there is no option to set it up. I can specify the number of weeks between running repeated job. But "first of the month" is not offered as an ...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Device driver with multiple receive queues for family of 10GB adaptersCCIN = 2CE3.

Customer uses Virtual IP on pair of 10Gb ETHERNET adapters EN15/EN16 (CCIN 2CE3) with only one port populated/active on each card. With huge traffic when number of frames increased above 147K frames/second driver fully takes one CPU and can not sc...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Change the Configuration of LPI in Java Print (jpsDBCSUseSplfLPI)

Need change LPI of Spool file, set the "jpsDBCSUseSplfLPI" on acssm.ini. But only some printer session need this setting. Others doesn't need this setting because output is broken. So want the setting "jpsDBCSUseSplfLPI" in each hod files.
12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

LPM error description improvement

LPM validation fails with error: Adapter fscsi2 txu is 1048576 client needs txu 4194304 => this is bit misleading ; spent 1,5hours of googling for "fc adapter and txu parameter" Actual root cause was that max_xfer_size was the value that needed...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Delivered

Accept %CHECKx and %TRIMx BIFS in CL in RDP

I use RDP for CL development as well as RPG. Recent Technology Refresh PTFs have made available the %CHECKx and %TRIMx BIFS. These are flagged as errors in the editor. Those are the specific examples I can think of at this point. I guess in a broa...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

BRMS command to check for available Media in Tape Library

Request to supply a command to pre-check that the required media are available in the Tape Library before BRMS backup starts. Use Case: During night, BRMS jobs are running in the background to save parts of the system.In case no useful expired med...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Add PRTMOVBRM to the BRMS Enterprise reports you can run.

We need to send the Tape Operations Team a daily report with the tapes that they need to move. In order to do that we have a scheduled job to submit the report. It would be nice to be able to do it from BRMS Enterprise as we do with the rest of th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Message Monitor - Allow creator to specify USER

When creating a new message monitor or modifying an existing message monitor, allow the entry of a user ID. Similar to submitting a job (SBMJOB), adding a job schedule entry (ADDJOBSCDE), or changing a job schedule entry (CHGJOBSCDE). Use Case: I ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Delivered

Message Monitor - Allow non-owner to perform actions

If one user creates a message monitor, no one else, regardless of authorities, can perform the following actions:- Reset Triggers- Start- Stop- Delete It isn't practical to have to get a hold of the owner of the message monitor just to restart the...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Delivered

IBM i web services server allow update of rest web service parameters

I'm investigating creating rest web services on the iseries using the IBM web administrator for i, Applications server tab. I did a tutorial that created a student rest web service and got it working after several delete/recreates (I had a space o...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 3 Delivered

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