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Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
9 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Convert all OS screens to 132 columns

It would be nice to have all the OS screens (including all output) in 132 columns and not 80 columns. In 2025 everyone has monitors that properly support (and with a nice readable font) 132-column screens.
3 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration
143 VOTE

Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

List procedures that a program uses in PROGRAM_EXPORT_IMPORT_INFO

Despite the name, the PROGRAM_EXPORT_IMPORT_INFO does not actually list the procedures imported by a program. This is important because, when the signature of a procedure changes, all programs that import (use) the procedure must be changed. Impor...
2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Store IFS information in SAVE_FILE_OBJECTS view

To list the contents of a savefile, we now have the SAVE_FILE_OBJECTS view. Although the documentation explicitly mentions that no IFS information is returned, it would be great to find this information in the view in a future update. https://www....
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted
124 VOTE

HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

Add %HEX (or %TOHEX and %FROMHEX) built-in functions to RPG IV

Utilizing the cvthc and cvtch functions for converting to and from hexadecimal notation is a valuable tool in RPG land. However, in the context of RPG development, we must rely on our own prototypes since IBM does not provide standard prototypes w...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add ability to set the idle timeout when LDAP auto-manage is enabled

Due to recent audit findings, we are enabling auto-manage using LDAP groups to audit users who have access to the HMC. The plan is to have users inherit user properties defined in the LDAP groups. During testing, we noticed when LDAP is configured...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v8.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

We are getting dinged by Qualys that our IBM i is exposed to CVE-2023-51385. I have applied the fixes listed at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7123159 however IBM only chose to patch an old level of OpenSSH instead of putting on a new leve...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Submitted

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