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CMC don't provide any possibility to see number of sockets used vs purchased in subscription.

Would be great to see in CMC number of sockets used and number of sockets purchased by subscription. Such data should be accessible also via REST API
over 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

Support for multiple SAP HANA Production LPARs in Scale Out Systems

Hello, Our current Scale Out systems such as the L1024 support a large amount of Memory (up to 8TB) however they are limited to up to 4 x Production SAP HANA LPARs We need this to be increased to at least 8 x Production SAP HANA LPARs in order to ...
over 1 year ago in Power Ecosystem Software 2 Not under consideration

Suppress Handled SQL Messages from Joblog

SQL places a lot of messages in the joblog. When diagnosing a problem from a joblog it is often difficult to wade through which messages can be ignored and which messages represent a problem that needs further investigation. It is also often impos...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

ACS - Run SQL Script - is there a way to have it retain the last folder used?

TS015526296 I use Run SQL Scripts many times a day.I either need to open a new script or save a script to the IFS across multiple LPARs/systems.Every time, I save the script, I need to navigate my way from my home folder (/home/developer) to the f...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Add documentation for NVMe on AIX/VIOS: nvmemgr command

With our new systems 100% NVMe internally we should document for AIX / VIOS the ability to configure the NVMe drives, manage namespaces, etc. IBM i has this documentation, AIX should too since that also covers the Virtual I/O Server. The nvmemgr c...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

IBM i IWS Web Performance Advisor

IBM i web services server is an integrated web application server that is running a web services engine. Even though web services engine runs on web application server, IBM i web performance advisor is not supported for IWS. Support for web perfor...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

Provide a CL Command Parameter Option for Required when INTERACTIVE

some CL command parameters can be designated as MIN(1) which makes them have a value before the command may be run. We need a way to set parameters to REQUIRED when they are run interactively vs batch. Add a RQD parameter (or similar) to PARM stat...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

Enabling SpectrumScale Snapshot in PowerVC for VIOS SDS

With PowerVC 2.0 and VIOS 3.1.2.0 there is a new possibility to use Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Remote Cluster mounts in PowerVC as storage provider.Actually there is no possibility to make snapshots from client lpar rootvg as it could be done with othe...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

LPM in PowerVC for VIOS SDS using GPFS as Storage Provider

With PowerVC 2.0 and VIOS 3.1.2.0 there is a new possibility to use Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Remote Cluster mounts in PowerVC as storage provider.Actually there is no possibility to make use of LPM in this environment. The possibility for LPM should ...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Change severity of CPD5D1D message

When compiling a program in Rational Developer for i (or 5250) a CPD5D1D maybe encountered if objects (modules or service programs) listed in the binding directory don't exist. This is not necessarily an error as long as you don't use procedures o...
3 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted