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License IBM Cloud Portal Code

IBM's Cloud portal is based on PowerVC / Openstack and provides very good deployment and billing capabilities. Why not offer this code to customers who are currently using PowerVC in their own on-prem solution.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add IFS EDIT option like iNav has.

I would like to see the EDIT option put into the ACS software component for the IFS.Currently it is in the iNav component. So it would be beneficial to see it in the ACS side component. Use Case: I have .TXT and .LOG files that I would like to Edi...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under 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

SQL constraint "FOREIGN KEY DEFERRABLE"

One strength of relational databases is their constant vigilance over data correctness. The user can declare constraints that their data must obey, and then leave it to the database to enforce the rules. This saves a lot of procedural application ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Include the port in the ssh connection configuraction for the ACS Opensource packages Manager

The ACS Opensource packages Manager does not work if the sshd in the ibm i is configured to use a different port than 22.
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

Port Linux package SSSD into AIX for Active Directory authentication

There are costed product options that allow user and group management from Active Directory and authentication. SSSD has been ported to different flavors of Linux and to have it working on AIX would provide simplicity and reduced cost.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

shift away from _base default proc compat mode on P9 and onward

PHYP team confirmed that hypervisor will only preset the _base level for default on P9 / P10 "Keeping the meaning of Default (mapped to POWER9_Base) ensures that existing partitions will successfully migrate across all vintages of P9 firmware levels.
over 2 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

SQL DB2 change in the for system name

When you create an SQL table and the object identifier specified is a valid system name you can not specifiy a different for system name. I would like to be able to specifiy a different name for compatibility with older programs while using newer ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

A new OPTION to force pointer declaration

A new OPTIONs to force explicit declaration of pointer type variables. Use Case: Developing programs
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Future consideration

Repository Search PTF Currency

There's multiple options to check your PTF currency against IBM's recommended PTF's. In order to do so you have to have some kind of connection path to the outside world which we don't have. It would be so much easier if we coudl somehow get this ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

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