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Support for SFP mix in 4-port adapter EN24, EN26

Actual 4-port adapters EN24 and EN26 don't support mix of SFP. Many customers require to split management network usually based on 1Gb Ethernet from 10/25Gb access ports. 4-port adapters are ideal product to have dual VIO setup with pairs of these...
4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Submitted

Add advanced vNIC to HMC Collection

If you have a trunked VLAN on the network side, set the VLAN as PortVLANID. This is used very often. Unfortunately, there is no option to do this with Ansible in the HMC-collection. i create also a git issue https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-hm...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

lsdev should show the correct storage type

lsdev shows for an FS9500 storage (and also other newer storages) still "IBM 2076 FC disk", which is very old and missleading. The command should give the correct type, for example 4666 for an FS9500 storage. $ lsdev -Cl hdisk420hdisk420 Available...
9 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Navigator add own monitor

In Navigator there is the ability to define monitors that are managed directly by the system and are based on certain metrics such as free disk space capacity, CPU usage, etc. In addition, there is the ability to monitor message queues, defining m...
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

ILE COBOL: CRTCBLMOD MODULE(*PGMID) should avoid *MODULE object with invalid name

When compiling a ILE COBOL module (CRTCBLMOD) with parameter MODULE(*PGMID) the module name is taken from the PROGRAM-ID paragraph in the outermost ILE COBOL source program of the compilation unit. When the programmer had used "PGM NAM01" as PROGR...
13 days ago in IBM i / Languages - Other 0 Submitted

SYSTOOLS/GENERATE_SPREADSHEET - Add possibility to export to a specific spreadsheet tab

Implemented by adding a new parameter "SPREADSHEET_TAB" to the GENERATE_SPREADSHEET function.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Other 0 Submitted
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Develop Visual Studio Code Extension for RPG

Visual studio code is one of the most code editor used all around the world. What I want is an extension for Visual Studio Code to use it as RPG Editor. You could implement one of this extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 18 Future consideration

IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
2 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

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