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When Automatic Resize is turned on for 5250 sessions with multiple tabs, make each tab selected resize the window as needed.

Automatic resize is turned on for a 5250 session with multiple tabs. The first tab displays a 27x132 screen and the window resizes. When the second tab is selected, the window does not resize if that is a 24x80 screen so there is lots of blank spa...
8 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Automatically address file issue on the QAS9PALEVT file reaching full

The maximum size has been reached for member QAS9PALEVT file QAS9PALEVT in library QSRVAGT.
16 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Add column for IP address when looking up Writers and Remote Writers

Finding and changing the IP address of a printer on a device description or an output queue has been traditionally very difficult to do, especially in an environment with lots of printers and no one knows the name of the printer on IBM i. I would ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted

Allow %PROC BiF in the ON-EXIT

Allow the %PROC built in function to be used in the ON-EXIT group. That way if the subprocedure errors I can return the name of the subprocedure to whatever called it.
6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

vnicserver device needs to signal to phyp when it's shutting down to avoid network outage

Environment:Power9 server with vios 3.1.3.21 pair which host vnicserver devices with backing sriov adapters for the vnic client devices in failover configuration Problem:During shutdown/reboot of the vio server that hosts the active vnicserver dev...
over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

Possibility to create IFS objects filters

Because many sources for IBM objects e.g programs, commands can be stored in IFS directories, it would be good to have possibility to define IFS directories and files filters like ones available for objects.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Request for the additional parameter/function for detaching DDM from LVM Mirror

・Requested function: - I want to request a timeout parameter to enable users to adjust IO timeout to detach each hdisk from LVM Mirror configuration. - I want to request a function that enables a detachment of a DDM under LVM Mirror, in case its I...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration
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*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

PowerVC support for Storage Virtualize Safeguarded Snapshots (SGC 2.0)

As an IBM business partner we have several customers using an IBM SAN Volume Controller stretched-cluster configuration with PowerVC for Private Cloud.The customers are interested in a Safeguarded Copy cyber resiliency solution but it cannot be re...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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