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    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

    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

    Export Running LPAR

    Add the ability to directly export a running LPAR without having to first create an Image.
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    "create type" with all characteristics like column table

    Improve the SQL "create type" command by adding the column header, the field text and all the possible features that are in a field of a table. In this way it would be possible to create the tables by simply referring to the "type" without definin...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

    DB2 Next Identity Value has incorrect value

    The majority of new tables we create contain a record identity column defined as GENERATED BY DEFAULT, starting at 1, increment by 1. This column is also the primary key for the tables. Most inserts into tables do not specify a value for the recor...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    CLOB columns not showing in RSE>Show in Table>Data

    I see that RSE>Show in Table>Data fails as well. And I think you might be right about the CLOB.Feel free to open a PMR (or Case as it it called today) on this situation. (For internal folks, you can find the reproducing materials in library ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Future consideration

    Email all self-service users / Add custom email templates and rules

    PowerVC has a built-in email functionality for requests/expiration notices. Enhancing the product with the ability to send notices to all users and users by project (maintenance notices / security bulletins / reminders) via the built-in "donotrepl...
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add a drop down to choose VIO Server on vNIC create on deploy

    PVC 2.0.2.x introduced the ability to create network adapters in preferred order OR allow automated order on adapter creation. That was very handy (I saw the earlier RFE and you stepped up) as building bonds on back-end I need to know which adapte...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Need API to return SQL_OBJECT_TYPE and SQL LONG NAME from IBM i object name and type and visversa

    Please enhanced QGYOLOBJ and QUSROBJD return the SQL Long Object Name and SQL Object Type for objects that have those properties. Also, provide a new API or enhance QDBRTVSN to go in the reverse; that is to return the IBM i object name and object ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Future consideration

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