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Power Systems to support replacement of WWPN's on HBA Cards

On Power9 the EN1C/EN1D cards use hard soldered SFP's; when a SFP fails the HBA must replaced, which requires SAN Zoning Changes These cards have the capability to replace the WWPN/WWNN, and we require a method to update the replacement HBA's WWPN...
almost 4 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

For RPG provide JSON support

Please provide JSON data support in RPG. Read JSON document from IFS or variable. Same methods as already there for XML data. Use Case: Gaining need for processing JSON documents.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Delivered

The current AIX rw_timeout minium limit 30 seconds is to high/long for modern IT environment.

System: IBM AIXActor: Customer needs rw_timeout minium limit less then 30 seconds. And needs to know hit time along with the rw_timeout. Description: There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

licensing without depending on system serial number

Need a new API to make licensing without depending on system serial number. Use Case: Rocket iCluster is a HA/DR tool on IBM Power system for 20+ years.We use GENLICKEY command to generate license keys for our customers. This command requires the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Delivered

RDi : open include/copy from IFS

RDi is able to open the /include or /copy members only for physical source files : add the capacity to open /include from the IFS Use Case: Very usefull for ILE development.
about 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Access Client Solutions IFS timestamp format and timezone

Currently the Access Client Solutions IFS component shows file timestamps in a textual format, eg. "9 February 2022 at 16:30:29 GMT". There is no alignment and a varying width font is used. The timestamp is shown in local (PC client) timezone. 1. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Ability to omit fields in WebService reply when they are optional

I'm working with the integrated web services server and have run into a problem. My service has several optional elements, but I can't seem to find a way to indicate that it's optional so they are returned as blank elements. It is a restful interf...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Delivered

a command to view the contents of a DTAQ (DSPTAQ)

An command to view the contents of a dtaq Use Case: DSPDTAQ mydtaq
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Delivered

Better error handling in embedded SQL

Currently, after every execution of an SQL statement, we must manually check the SQLSTATE to see if an error occurred. This adds bloat to our code. I would like to see the SQL engine send actual escape messages, so that we can catch these with RPG...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

IFS_DELETE SQL Service

Create a IFS_delete, IFS_DELETE_UTF8 and IFS_delete_Binary sql services. Use Case: We have IFS_read and IFS_write but, we currently don't have a IFS_delete. For ease of use and consistency, please consider implementing this SQL service.
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered