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Provisioning LPAR ID in GUI screen during LPM process

We just completed our test system migration using the GUI LPM. It was smooth as [Deleted] and worked like charm. One major drawback. The partition ID changed and not under our control. Thus new partition on target system comes up with random Lpar ...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add SSHFS support to ADDMFS

Adding SSHFS support to ADDMFS command can help mitigate NFS performance issues, avoid using UDP ports, allows to connect using a secure connection on Internet and compress data for better performance. Use Case: We could connect to IBM Cloud from ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

STRDBG can not show values of variables based on pointer given as parameter

It's not possible to show the value of variables which based on a pointer given as parameter in STRDGB. If you try to display "pTest" with F11 of the following example you get : EVAL pTest PTEST.V1 = '**********'PTEST.V2 = '**********' Example : d...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Future consideration

First-class support for modernizing a data model

Database modernization on the IBM i is more complex & expensive than it could be. The Lab Services approach [1] of creating a logical file over redesigned tables, (to act as a surrogate for the old design) is a clever hack that reduces the cos...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

ACS update to include built in token acceptance for Oauth or Open ID connect

See case TS013914045 for background
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

CMC Cloud connector stale HMC alerting

Right now, there is no alerting possible for stale HMC's cloud connector status from CMC. Would be great to have possibility receive notification about stale HMC's.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Management Console 1 Submitted

HMC DLPAR for unneeded/unwanted vhost adapters

The HMC V9 no longer features DLPAR operations for deleting unneeded/unwanted vhosts,
about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

ACS should allow SQL Examples to support Folders in Custom view

We are running ACS 1.1.8.3 and like the feature of SQLCustomExamples. I would like to suggest that it support a directory listing showing files and folders. Should you have a large number of examples ACS tries to parse them all and put them into a...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

New IMPORT parameter on DCLF command

Add new IMPORT parameter to the DCLF (Declare File) CL command so the fields would be initialized with an exported Data Structure from a Service Program or another Module Rules and Validations:-The new IMPORT parm would require a name up to 14 cha...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 3 Not under consideration

rw_max_time change to 30

I want to be able to set the minimum value of "rw_max_time" which is the attribute value of hdisk to 30.
over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

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