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    Syntax support for new Cobol verbs

    Today syntax checking isn't done for new Cobol verbs like EXIT SECTION, EXIT PARAGRAPH, EXIT PERFORM and ALLOCATE. We are using EXIT SECTION a lot now but RDi always shows that it is some error in the code.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

    Power VC - AD Integration For Projects and Roles

    Power VC. Goal to bind Power VC to AD Then Create AD groups and bind two primary roles: VM requester vs full admin to AD groups. And do this by and for independant projects within powervc The documentation here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledg...
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add functionality to iNav - the ability to review entries in any Journal Receiver

    In the same way you can view entries in the System Audit Journal - add the functionality to view entries in any journal on the server. This is a nice to have feature that would allow using the same modern interface to research data related transa...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

    Have an option( flag or environment variable) for active dead gateway detection ( -active_dgd ) to not write to the system log

    If a pair of routes is created with the -active_dgd flag and the gateway ( remote host ) is rebooted, the local host will receive a system log message indicating that the gateway is broken or no longer pingable. Please add an option so that the lo...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    ACS - Schemas - provide for re-ordering of all columns in a table and views.

    Please provide additional functionality to allow us to reorder any field/column on a table/view. As modernization happens or while developing new applications, new fields and keys are added and we do need to reorganize the sequence in which fields...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

    Create custom groups in enhanced interface where we can specify filters as in classic interface

    We would like to be able to do the same as we can in the Classic interface as descriped here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER7/p7ha1/user-definedgroups.htm​
    about 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    LSVG -P does not issue any warning or errors when multiple PVs have duplicate PVIDs. It may list PVs that are not part of the volume group.

    Every day, we clone all of the PVs in select volume groups, then run cfgmgr to make them accessible. Our normal first step is to clear and reset the PVID of each of the new PVs. Then use those PVs to recreate a new cloned version of the original v...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    add support for AIX and IBM i in yarnpkg

    Yarn is a package manager for Javascript projects (https://yarnpkg.com/). It is used in many open and closed source projects for dependency management. As for now yarn doesn't support big endian architectures, such as AIX and IBM i. It means, that...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

    Display local and remote site resource totals

    Create a new command to show a total of the local resources for all the managed VMs and the total resources of the remote hosts. These totals should include CPU and memory resources.
    over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

    remove user "anonymous" from BMC

    remove user "anonymouse" from BMC. ." they are saying that the anonymous user is part of the design ( all though not in use ) " so why i am not able to delete this user. .We will have discussions because of this nonsense-useless-user on every secu...
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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