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CMC to support dual HMC

Currently we can add two HMC for a power hardware, but i guess it actively uses only one. As soon as the active hmc gets disconnects or frame-hmc connection fails, CMC dont display frame(systems) information all over the place. primarly PEP2 appli...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Management Console 3 Needs more information

QIBM_QZDA_INIT - Add new format that includes the source IP

Add a new exit point format for QIBM_QZDA_INIT that includes the IP address of the client initiating the connection. Use Case: We use the QIBM_QZDA_INIT exit point to filter which user accounts are allowed access via ODBC/JDBC. We would like to be...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

AIX cloud repo

We need for AIX a "cloud repo" where we (SWMA customers) can download specific package(s) at base level (I). There are numerous times we have faced an update need the "I" base package and then the journey starts searchin all of our LPP_Sources/rep...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add Network > Servers >TCP/IP servers to ACS

Add a new network section to ACS and add Network > Servers TCP/IP server Use Case: We would like to have the ability to start and stop TCP/IP servers without having to go into navigator for the web. This is one of the couple of features that we...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Limited access to IFS via iACS

We manage a Outsourcing Services for Banking and Insurance Customers. The users transfer files from their pc to the /home directory of the As400 Server through the shared folders. We would like to use iACS for this activity, but limiting access to...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Change "Compare File" dialog to use a dialog like "Open Member in Editor" dialog at first

When I click on the "Compare to a file" toolbar button, the prompt comes up with a list of connections, similar to that which appears when selecting to browse from the "Open Member in Editor" dialog. I'd like to see this come up at first with the ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Future consideration

Fabric monitoring/visibility for PowerVC

Hello team, We have PowerVC 2.0.2 and during migration storage fabrics were replaced as well. Unfortunately without accounts for PowerVC. Once that was done PowerVC was blind for that, we tried:- create new LUN - it failed, without any notificatio...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

iSCSI support (over VIOS) for PowerVC

Some customer are going away from FibreChannel. For these customers we should of an alternative connection to the storage, such as iSCSI.The new VIOS version 3 now supports iSCSI connections and can virtualize that storage into the client VM.Power...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Include override to location of source members when debugging programs.

At some sites, the old practice of using a temporary library for additions and changes to programs is utilized, example:- DATALIB- TEMPLIB- PRODUCTIONLIB After say 2 weeks of no issues, the objects are moved to the PRODUCTION library. Problem:When...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 4 Future consideration

RDi Allow Copy&Paste on member filter

Allow a Copy & Paste on a member filter. Currently this only works on an object filter drilling down into the source physical file. Looking at a member filter there's only a Copy... no Paste. Use Case: Copy members within a filter view
about 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Future consideration

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