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PowerHA add delay option to startup

When starting the whole cluster the Nodes are processed in sequence.This creates problems when RGs have start after dependencies, are located on different Primary nodes.A detailed problem description got already sent to Ravi Shankar.
about 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

IBM RDi 9.5 RPG, Cobol Provide RSE port number parameter in eclipse.ini

Rational Developer for i 9.5 (SP2) is installed in a Citrix environment. We noticed that occasionally developers encounter a TCP port collision for Rational Developer (Remote Systems Explorer) or RSE component. Error message RSEC2201:E is issued w...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Default the same location to the open path of the SQL script

The ACS Run SQL Scripts tool saves the last location of the last save of scripts, which is fine to a point. The ablilty to save results to a file also defaults to this same location. Please change the product in one of two ways. 1. Default the fil...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Run site discovery (or refresh/clear configuration of HMC hosts) without any host added to ksys

VMRM is not able to refresh configuration without any host. All details in support case: TS001971159
over 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

VM Recovery Manager VM turns automatically to Managed after discovery and LPM

VM Recovery Manager after discovery or LPM(on HMC) is turning all machines to Manage mode by default instead to unmanage. All details in Case: TS002040830
over 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

ACS Printer Output Date Time enhancement

In IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), Printer Output module, the creation date and time are separate columns. Also, the date and time are being translated to another timezone and do not match the create date and time on the wrksplf application. ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Multiple lpar performance

Enhancement to monitor multiple lpar performance from HMC at managed system level. Presently only individual lpar performance can be monitored. To understand and better utilize resources by comparing or analyzing multiple lpar performance at manag...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

CRTBNDRPG should additionally support CCSID parameter

Eclipse Orion and Git now support RPG Source located in IFS, which will be tagged with CCSID 1208 or UTF-8 as default. On the other hand, the RPG compiler (CRTBNDRPG command) doesn't support CCSID parameter and is not compatible with IFS located R...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Delivered

PowerSC MFA high availability solution on Linux

PowerSC MFA 2.0 now supports Postgres replication for High Availability. I have suggested using PowerHA to manage an HA solution for AIX (ID# 154016), for the Linux MFA solution, pacemaker could provide similar functions - that is manage the avail...
almost 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

hope to use IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED TIMESTAMP field track record change, UDB and MySQL have this function

Customer want to use IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED TIMESTAMP field track record change, UDB and MySQL have this function. In UDB, they can do this by: alter table <tabname> add UPDATETIME TIMESTAMP NOT NULL IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED ALWAYS F...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered