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BRMS GUI SWA MSGQ

Inconsistency between GUI and Telnet interface. The BRMS greenscreen allows you to specify the name of the message queue, when running a save with the option save while active. You are allowed to enter the name of a message queue, not the library....
over 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Delivered

PowerVC support for lun migration to different storage pool in IBM SVC

Our Costumer would like to migrate a LUN (created and managed by PowerVC) to a new storage Pool in the SVC. The Costumer has two old storage-pools in the SVC and would like to migrate Copy0 of the LUN to the new pool-1 and Copy1 of the LUN to new ...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

To support SRIOV networks in deploy template

PowerVC 1.4.4.1 cannot Create Deploy Template - no network defined error due to usage of SRIOV
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Let QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL also generate the system name for SQL global variable

Currently the QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL() procedure does not generate the FOR SYSTEM NAME part when it generates the source for an SQL Global Variable. When a variable is recreated based on the output of this procedure it will generate a system name, whi...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Powervc 2.0.1.1 functionality to support Pure storage to create hyper swap/async volumes.

All those organizations which are using non-IBM storage and need to deploy VM's with hyper swap and async volume in different Halls of a DC (hyper swap volumes) and different DC (async- volumes)
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

fcstat and underlying APIs - time series data

It would be great if fcstat could at least give time-series output (like vmstat, iostat, etc.) for at least one interface at a time. Having a "-a" flag (or similar) to get time-series performance/capacity data for all of the HBAs in the system at ...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

SQL Plan Cache Filter option for Job

The Filters option in SQL Plan Cache has no option for entering job information like jobname and jobnumber. for analyzing the SQL Plan Cache and searching for the SQL statements initiated in that job, the searching takes much time and caused extra...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

HMC - Check network setting before checking for system LIC upgrades

when checking for Power server LIC upgrades, HMC reported "No updates available on IBM Service web site". As we upgraded a different server on an other HMC there was some confusion.After some checking we found the HMC DNS/IP routing settings were ...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

Download .MBR files doesn't convert to ASCII

When using "Integrated File system" program and I download a member file from /QSYS.LIB/AWPDEV.LIB/qrpglesrc.file, the resulting file isn't in ASCII and is unreadable. If I try to view the file it crashes the entire Client Solutions program and no...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Delivered

Change SQL window quit warning dialog buttons

When closing an SQL window, the warning prompts are inconsistent and confusing. All results currently open will be closed. Do you want to continue? Yes/No Save changes to Untitled? Yes/No/Cancel On the first question, No abandons the close action....
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

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