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alternative IP address for the PowerHA SystemMirror GUI communication

The official documentation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPHQG_7.2/rnstandard723/rnstd723.htm) says, that this is already implemented which is wrong.When the SMUI GUI starts gathering the clusterdata it connects not over the alt...
almost 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

Start/Stop/Restart HMC CLoud connector from GUI

HMC Admin with PEP 2.0 should be able to Start/Stopp and restart Power Enterprise Pool 2.0 Cloud connector from HMC GUI rather alway login into HMC via HMC
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

MCH3402 - restore should move programs in use to QRPLOBJ or RPG should resolve to the program again

If you compile a program where someone is in the application then the older version is put in QRPLOBJ. This doesn't happen if you restore the program causing the program referring to it to terminate with MCH3402 (Tried to refer to all or part of a...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 6 Future consideration

Profile usage space issue

Referring to support case TS012330272 – On OS/400, user profiles owned more than 2TB could have chance to get storage reported incorrectly (to a small number) by DSPUSRPRF and QSYS2/USER_STORAGE. IBM TS respond it's due to system limitation and th...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 0 Submitted

Dir for HTTP instance remains in www when deleting the HTTP instance via iNav

When deleting an HTTP instance using IBM Nav for I, the dir and sub directories and all there contents remain in www directory. Why is this? They should be deleted. Example.HTTP instance guijalk was deleted.Below remain. guijwalk DIRconf DIRhtdocs...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Provide enhancement to BRMS that will allow restoration of *ALLUSR which can be submitted to batch

I am requesting an enhancement to BRMS which will provide the ability to perform restore operations in batch with STRRCYBRM using the control group specified from a STRBKUBRM. After implementing PowerHA with iASP, we have to keep 12 servers SYSBAS...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Future consideration

Allow CL to Pass Strings to RPG OPTIONS(*STRING) Parameters

Please allow the CALLPRC command to pass a string to an RPG procedure parameter that is defined as POINTER OPTIONS(*STRING). Use Case: Currently, I still have to pass a pointer to such a parameter: dcl &p_code *ptr | chgvar &code 'AAT990' ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 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

Port of tesseract OCR to the open source packages

Tesseract optical character recognition engine port to IBM will provide convenience and lower costs in building image-processing applications. Reasons for this poer are the followingThe first reason is convenience -- the C++ version of Tesseract c...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Planned for future release

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