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PowerVC advanced user role without deleting capability

We are trying to onboard/manage all existing PowerVM Hosts/VMs under PowerVC. Now every user role which can make change can also do delete VM including volumes. This is a potential disaster when we want our Tier-1 system admin team use PowerVC ins...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Change RNF ID & help text for global array starting with TAB

I ran into an issue yesterday where I created a global variable as an array. The variable name was Table_Title. When I attempted to access the array using an element ID (ie. Table_Title(1)), the compiler would throw an RNF0528 "The index is not al...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Delivered

Display Edit Description (DSPEDTD) command to enclose the ?Integer mask' attribute within apostrophes

We have encountered issues when compiling DSPFs and programs that use Edit Description 9 a number of times in the past when deploying changes to client servers. When displaying an Edit Description (DSPEDTD), the Integer mask value is NOT enclosed ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Delivered

Add Find Member option parameter to RUNSQLSTM

Need to be able to specify a source file, such as SRCFILE(QSQLSRC) without a library (hence, *LIBL) and have the command search for the member in QSQLSRC anywhere on the library list. Similar to how Find Member Processing = 1 option of theQUSRMBRD...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Write preference pthread_rwlock_wrlock

Db2 pureScale provides extreme availability, extreme scalability, and workload consolidations for mission critical OLTP applications that demand 7x24x365 availability. Today, Db2 pureScale is supported on AIX and Linux on POWER and Intel Linux. A ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

MSPP support for DRO

We would like to see an enhancement for DRO, based not only on the CPU /memory utilization , but also on the MSPPs (shared Processor pools) utilization.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Open Browsed Source Member for Edit

When browsing a source physical file member with LPEX, right-click on the member name tab brings up a menu with these options: Close, Close Others, Close all. Add a fourth option, such as "Open for Edit", to close the browse window and re-open the...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Delivered

Keep Live Outline Updated with Copybook Definitions

Live Outline requires a refresh to pick up new data structures (and possibly other variables) when a copybook it references is updated. I understand that. However, after the refresh, it easily looses the information it just got from the copybook. ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

LDAP and multiple base DN support

We configure our HMC's with LDAP integration for user management. With users in various regions around the world, and how our LDAP OU's are configured, the scope has to be set to sub, and very high up in the OU tree. This results in a login delay ...
over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

ILE SQL Precompiler commands like CRTSQLRPGLE Parameter DBGVIEW should support more than just the Values *NONE and *SOURCE

As of today it is only possible to either request DBGVIEW(*NONE) or DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) when precompiling ILE SQL programs.Using *SOURCE is actually passed as *ALL to the backend compiler, which causes all possible debug views to be generated. Usuall...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

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