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Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
25 minutes ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Add the ability to execute a custom AcsConfig.properties in a specific folder when calling acsbundle.jar

I have to deploy ACS in a customer Citrix environnement, with different categories of user and with specific needs (limited access to IFS folders, no SQL client connections for just one category, ...).My intent would be to create as many AcsConfig...
about 3 hours ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

Add more functionality to *VAR and *AUTO arrays

I really love the new *AUTO and *VAR arrays, I use them quite often. I would really like more functionality to be added, like the methods available for JavaScript arrays. Some examples assuming an Array "A20" with dim(*auto:20) : I gather a set of...
1 day ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
4 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Submitted

Security: Add to user configuration option to log in only from selected IP address

Currently, HMC does not allow you to restrict a user's login to a selected IP address. Such an option is available in SSH however it cannot be used on the HMC console. Currently, it is possible to restrict SSH logins (all of them) using the firewa...
4 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Custom SQLSTATE/MESSAGE for SIGNAL statement

Currently it is possible with the SIGNAL statement to return a custom SQLSTATE and message. DECLARE COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000'; DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND SIGNAL SQLSTATE '75001' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Country no...
4 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Granular API Token Management in CMC

The current IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) API token system provides limited control over access permissions. We propose enhancing the token management capabilities to provide greater flexibility and security: Multiple API Tokens: Allow users ...
4 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Retrieving Events/Alerts in CMC from API

Currently, the IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) provides notifications of events and alerts only via email and SMS. This limits the ability to integrate CMC with other monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems. We propose adding a RESTful AP...
4 days ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Insert scripts from custom examples

Hello, after installing version 1.1.9.7, I can't insert my custom scripts; In the previous version there was a button that did that. Is there a new option to do so? Thanks in advance
5 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

WRKFCNUSG Auditing

It would be nice if any adds/changes/deletes that occur when using the WRKFCNUSG process would be tracking in the Security Audit Journal for the logical replication apps can keep the authorities in sync between SRC and TGT replication sets.
5 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Functionality already exists