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    Provide visual indication when IWS web UI is busy

    When the IWS server web UI is doing work, there is no visual indication that it is busy when managing deployed services. Providing a busy indicator will make managing deployed services much easier because we will have an indication when processes ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

    Would like to see NVMe over TCP/IP supported in the IBM Power Hardware and IBM Storage offering lines

    NVMe/TCP is to provide a low latency, shared storage solution to take advantage of existing high speed network infrastructure. Would like to see this supported within the VIOS so that all supported OS's ( AIX / IBM i / Linux on Power ) can take ad...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 7 Future consideration

    Show tables and columns used in embedded SQL statements in structure view

    The structure view displays in an extremely complete way all the uses of files, formats and zones by the native instructions (dcl-f, read, update ...). On the other hand, all the files and zones used by static SQL statements do not appear, which ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    HMC power supply display

    Create an option to view the actual status of a POWER supply. Currently, it's impossible to verify their status.
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

    add cli/REST path/command to allow a) creation of tag b) removal of tag against resource and c) querying of resources tags (which tags are assigned) - perhaps field in lssyscfg

    HMC GUI 10 provides 'tags' to allow functional grouping of systems and instance/lpars however these are not exposed as query able through REST or cli commands to allow management tools to make decisions / use the same tags
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Call Home test for vHMC

    At the moment there is no way to check, if vHMC Call Home configuration is working properly.As verified by IBM Support Case neither "Test connection" during configuration wizard nor "Creating a serviceable event" with checked flag "Test problem re...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Consolidate documentation for Services and documentation for the system catalog into one area.

    Instead of placing the documentation for IBM i Services underneath "Performance and query optimization" move it to "Db2 for i catalog views". Take these links: Db2® for i Services: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=optimization-db2-i-service...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 9 Future consideration

    GLVM for 3 locations (sides)

    Currently GLVM only support 2 sides.However, the LVM is able to manage 3 copies.Specially for IBM Cloud environments it is required to get GLVM to support 3 sides. So that the full capability of the AIX LVM can be utilized.
    about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    Enhance lsmpio showing both storages in an policy-based HA environment (mirroring)

    In an AIX VM using a FS9500 environment with policy-based HA it is only possible with lsmpio to see the primary storage node of the mirroring relation in the FS9500. It should be possible to see both storages of that relation. This is especially i...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Add "Deprecated" as a special keyword to procedures

    Deprecation is something that is not something that RPG developers would be familiar with, however open source developers are. When you no longer need a method or when you dont want someone to use a method that is out there, you deprecate the meth...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Future consideration

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