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The possibility of using LPM (Live Partition Mobility) between two Power10 servers connected in direct attached mode to an IBM FS5035 storage

Customer purchased a second power10 for this purpose, but the LPM does not work. IBM Support states that LPM in a direct attached environment (no San Switches) is not supported. Is it possible to find a solution?
about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Not under consideration

Change ownership of media when it expires

When having multiple systems in a BRMS network, it is possible many could be down at the same time. It would be nice if a central system could own all expired media, except non-shared media, so that if any system requiring media , can go to the ce...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

ACS file explorer address bar

The problem here is that the file location has to already be mapped as a drive. It will not let me browse to the server location to find a file. If I wanted to migrate a DTF to ACS it would be difficult to nearly impossible. We have many DTF files...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Hotspots to URLs have stopped working in Access Client Solutions version 1.1.7.2

In Access Client Solutions version 1.1.7.2 hotspots to URLs have stopped working. I have a string "FILE://myServer/myPath/myFile.PDF" and it is shown as an URL. When I click on it it says that the path does not exist. We have tested the same in Ac...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

PASE port for RCLONE

Please, port RCLONE an publish on YUM repository.Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from: Use Case: We could perform some simple backups and colaborate using lots of cloud providers, including IBM Cloud Object St...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Strip current line highlight from copy

When selecting source code from the LPEX editor, and then pasting that selection in certain applications such as Outlook or Word, the current line highlight is copied as well, and ends up being a dark blue background on the last line of the pasted...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

Change the SIZE Object in WRKOBJ from Byte to MB

Better to check the size of objects in WRKOBJ command
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Not under consideration

LPEX sort command needs to keep multi-line D-specs together

D-spec multi-line definitions are separated when sorting. Use Case: create D-spec entries that span multiple lines get separated when you run the sort command over the highlighted D-specs.
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Not under consideration

Application Diagram Enhancements

The current design of the Application Diagramming tool does not provide added benefit for us. Please consider these enhancements 1. Add a configuration to allow the diagramming tool to diagram internal structure only.2. Add a configuration option ...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Not under consideration

Revisit, enhance and reduce redundancy in earlier SQL Services VIEWS that utilize OBJECT_STATISTICS

Some early SQL Services, such as MSGQ_INFO and MSGF_DATA use a 2-phase OBJECT_STATISTICS instance to build the list of objects they're using or returning. See additional details for example. Today, the OBJECT_STATISTICS includes the system library...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration