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The ksysrppmgr command should be able to adjust the available resources on the managed hosts using the current HMC (V8R8.5.0 and later) POWER® Enterprise Pool capability.

The command currently can only adjust the available memory and processors on a managed system by referencing the HMC and the system it manages. This presents a challenge for adjusting the available resources on the remote managed systems when the ...
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future consideration

IBM i recovery from Linux NFS server or HMC

When we want to recover our IBM i from NFS server on-prem or cloud we need a second IBM i.I think i't possible to create some kind of program or script to create a SAVSYS and the directory structure on source system IFS, save as a tar and allow to...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 6 Future consideration

Rename file during download of spool file within ACS

Within IBM i Access Client Solutions the spool file download does not allow for naming the destination file. The ability to name the destination file to a name that is descriptive and meaningful for the end user without needing to rename it AFTER ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

Support for multiple VIOS pairs in 1KSYS of VM Recovery Manager HA

Currently VM Recovery Manager HA supports only one VIOS pair per KSYS.In an environment where multiple VIOS pairs are exist on a single node, it is necessary to configure a separate KSYS for each VIOS pair.Therefore, please improve the function so...
almost 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Terminate long running tasks on end requests

In order to terminate a program gracefully during an end request (ex. ENDJOB, ENDSBS, ...) the job end status can be checked (ex. RTVJOBA ENDSTS in CL or %ShtDn in RPG) and acted accordingly. The problem is however that when a job is executing lon...
10 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

System Monitor Scheduling

When using System Monitors in Navigator for I, it would be nice if we could use the operating systems job scheduler to turn on/off the monitors via a program call or API of some kind. Use Case: We have a situation where a customer of ours has an i...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Future consideration

ACS IFS Send function to include System ASP free space check

The ACS Ingrated File System - Send function creates a temporary QIFS* library in ASP1 under the covers as part of the send process. This is fine as long as the the IFS object(s) being sent are not larger than the spare space in ASP1. The size of ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Enhance Output Queue Library Filtering on QGYOLSPL to support *ALLUSR and *ALL options

The QGYOLSPL is great for obtaining a list of SPOOLED files. However the output queue filtering option is limited to a specific library name or two symbolic names *CURLIB and *LIBL. The issue comes up if an output queue is in a "private" library t...
10 months ago in IBM i / Print 1 Future consideration

Add rr-debugger compatibility with POWER on Linux

rr-debugger (https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr) provides the ability to record a test case that fails, and conveniently navigate forwards and backwards using a gdb interface to examine the program at various program states. This can be used to sol...
10 months ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Future consideration

Modify OpenAPI generation options from IWS

Currently when you deploy an API to IWS it generates a "swagger" document. This document conforms to the JSON based version 2.0 of the OpenAPI spec. Would it be possible to allow selection of the format / version to have this generated as? The res...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

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