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My votes: IBM i

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    IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

    It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

    Cloud Storage Solutions for i 5733ICC - Multi-threaded downloads

    I've configured the mutil-threaded uploads for this product and it made a significant improvement to the upload times. It would be beneficial to be able to do this for the downloads.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    SSL/TLS Enable IBM Fix Central Java (JNLP File) PTF Downloads

    IBM Fix Central's Java (JNLP) Downloads currently use Non-secure TCP Ports 8470 thru 8476 on the Target AS400/iSeries. We're in the process of locking down Non-secure TCP Ports in favor of their corresponding SSL/TLS Ports 9470 thru 9476. We canno...
    11 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Under review

    Enable F4 on the remove image catalogue entry so KEEP can be set to *YES

    While the RMVIMGCLGE provides an option and is the default to KEEP(*YES) the associated image catalogue file the 4=Remove option in WRKIMGCLGE provides no option to keep the associated file. This is inconsistent and has resulted in image files bei...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 4 Under review

    Add Function Usage to RTVSYSINF

    It would be great if the Function Usage (WRKFCNUSG) values could be integrated into the Retrieve System Information (RTVSYSINF) data collector. This would simplify data transfer to new systems via Save/Restore without the risk of forgetting values...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

    Sending Apache Server access and error logs to a Syslog Server

    Enable sending of Apache Server access and error logs on IBM i to a local or remote Syslog Server
    11 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Under review

    Make Python support zoneinfo

    zoneinfo is a package in the standard Python library, but IBM i doesn't implement it. This causes errors when trying to use 3rd party packages. IBM i should implement that package. Here's what my PC gives for zoneinfo: zoneinfo <module 'zoneinf...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Under review

    Bankable IBM i license transfers

    When upgrading hardware, many customers want to transfer existing IBM i entitlements from their old servers. However, the migration process for all workloads can take some time - a 12-month migration project is not unusual. At the same time, there...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 1 Under review

    Profile usage space issue

    Referring to support case TS012330272 – On OS/400, user profiles owned more than 2TB could have chance to get storage reported incorrectly (to a small number) by DSPUSRPRF and QSYS2/USER_STORAGE. IBM TS respond it's due to system limitation and th...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Storage 0 Under review

    Allow programs and service programs to FORCE library at top of system library list.

    When creating or changing Commands and Menus (*CMD, *MNU) objects you can set the PRDLIB, which cause the specified library to be inserted between the system library list and the user library list in the library list order. This provides a nice wa...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

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