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Change severity of CPD5D1D message

When compiling a program in Rational Developer for i (or 5250) a CPD5D1D maybe encountered if objects (modules or service programs) listed in the binding directory don't exist. This is not necessarily an error as long as you don't use procedures o...
7 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Show pcmprocusage (deductidle) status on the Capacity Monitoring (CM) application.

CM on CMC shows uploaded PCM data, but it doesn't show whether idle cycles are deducted at the time or not. It would be great if: 1) CM shows the current state of deductidle flag on the HMC(s). This could be also shown on the Cloud Connector statu...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

ACS Hotspots

We would like to take full advantage of ACS Hotspots but there is a conflict with programs where the mouse button has been enabled to recognise a double-click. The ENTER at cursor position also treated as double-click takes precedence and returns ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Add format level identifier to journal entries for database journaling

Today, journaling of database supply a lot of usefull information, but one is missing : the format level identifier, in other words, the description of the fields. Why do I need that ? Because sometimles I change a filed in a file. Then this file ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Telnet Server Attributes for V7R4

Currently there is no API to get telnet server attributes or SQL services in V7R4.The use case for this is for system parmeters docummentation. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1119123
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Networking 0 Submitted

IBMi AJS 7.5 is linked to previous 7.2 instead of current 7.5

I have updated my comments to the URL but as there were no response or changes I created this support. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-advanced-job-scheduler-ihttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/pdf/rzasnadjspdf.pdfthis URL is linked to...
9 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

Add lpar status to IBM Safe Guarded Copy screen

IBM Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) See attached WRKSGCPY screen Before we try to recover to a SGC, or before we try to end recovery, we need to know that the recovery lpar is powered off. Add some function to the WRKSGCPY screen to see that.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

I want to submit an idea for an AI supported Browser, but with a difference

Chose this product but will need multiple IBM AI PRODUCTS,Please go through the Description Hello,I want to submit an idea for an AI supported Browser, but with a difference, here's how it will be, Today Search Engines cannot find a particular Ind...
9 months ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 0 Submitted

Command to fetch VPD

Recently, after server firmware update, when the server was power cycled, it didn't came back up and the support team asked to upload the dumps from HMC. It was a production server and the timeline was very tight. So, now the client wants to get t...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

The customer should be able to access the transferred files directly on the support page in the event of a support case.

the customer should be able to access the transferred files directly on the support page. In the case of one client, several support staff can process the case. It would therefore be useful if these persons could access the transferred files direc...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted