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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

Allow for profile changes during LPM to save downtime on systems

An lpar with min 1G, desired 10G and max 16G memory profile, requires a reboot and profile change to move the min or max numbers to anything else. Since during an LPM it first creates a new profile on the target frame, sure would be nice if say th...
about 2 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

HMC should work as ntp server for eBMC ntp clients

As Pete Heyrman documented: The enterprise baseboard management controller (eBMC) was introduced in Power10 and provides similar system management functionality as the FSP. With respect to time, the eBMC time-of-day clock cannot be synced with the...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
2 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

Create CLI command that shows the same Virtual fiber data as displayed in HMC GUI.

Currently when logged into V10 HMC code gui when you select an lpar -> select adapter view then the virtual fiberchannel adapter tab it shows a table with the following details: Virtual IO server, client server adapter, location and the pair of...
14 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

HMC pedbg command single frame info

Currently the pedbg command grabs ALL relevant data from ALL the HMC's Managed Systems. This can take upwards of an hour especially when we're only interested in a single Managed System. We're requesting the pedbg command to have a switch to allow...
14 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Better documentation of Sqlstate behavior in IF statement

I ran into some peculiar piece of code that didn't do what I expected and decided to run a small test.The goal is to see if SqlState is being reset in an if-statement. My human brain says it shouldn't be reset in the example code below begin decl...
14 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Add an option to prevent QDLS from being used

IBM is recommending to stop using QDLS since 2010. Symmetric Multi Processing and using QDLS are also not a good combination. Sun setting QDLS is maybe a bridge to far, but giving the option to prevent QDLS from being mounted during the IPL, is ma...
4 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

Add an environment variable to control the behavior of WRKACTJOB F14 function

I am doing a H/A switch and many tasks are not available due to restricted state. Therefore suggestions such as using Navigator or Run SQL Scripts are not applicable As part of this switch I need to check for the presense of certain prestart jobs...
3 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

Possibility to create IFS objects filters

Because many sources for IBM objects e.g programs, commands can be stored in IFS directories, it would be good to have possibility to define IFS directories and files filters like ones available for objects.
8 months ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

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