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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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SNMP for large ASP/IASP

SNMP result for ASP/IASP size and allocation cannot go over 64 TB.The maximum disk unit size is 32768. Is possible increase this value to 65536 (max 128 TB) or more? Thanks Use Case: At the moment our iSeries has 45 TB IASP and we can monitor usin...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Debugging CL programs: Display variable content in Tooltip when mouse-hover

When debugging a CL programm, the content of variables is not displayed in the tooltip at mouse hover over a variable. Use Case: every debug of an CL program, when you want to see the content of a variable.
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

issues with netcd

netcd is unable to handle the dynamic nature of the GSS (Global Site Selector) based DNS record/ TLL. when the DNS record becomes unavailable and netcd is handling the entry as ‘stale' entry in netcd's cache.When the DNS entry comesback online , n...
about 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

IP Pool Page: Lock range of IP addesses

PowerVC UI, IP Pool page, we can select an IP and Lock it. The issue here is that need to select Ip one by one and click the "Lock" button to lock it. if we provide an option to input IP range of address, really help to save time if we have more I...
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Support compiler directives /if /endif for findMatch

resently, in RPGLE, findMatch will go to the corresponding start/end of a block for if, doX, etc as well as for (). Compiler directives /if, /endif are not supported currently. This RFE is asking that they be added for match and findMatch (ctrl-M ...
about 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Enhancements to QDBSRV jobs

When the QDBSRV jobs are hours behind (have a large amount of requests to process) a rename of a library can take hours because a flush request is done to make sure all work for the QDBSRV jobs and IASP QDBSRV jobs are complete. Refer to PMR 20228...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Custom DHCP range on HMC

Requesting the ability to add custom DHCP ranges to Power HMC.
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Live Outline doesn't work with User-Associated Member Types

In RDP, you can associate a member type with a parser. Menu Option: Window > Preferences > LPEX Editor > Parsers > Parser Associations. These non-standard member/document types have been causing the Live Outline to return an error dial...
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Is there a way to change QSQSVCDMP not to use QSYSPRT file

This is regarding a request we got from customer about routing of files QSQSVCDMP to outqueue QEZDEBUG,Issue description: Is it possible to redirect QSQSVCDMP to QEZDEBUG outq, It is currently directed directly to user outq and is printed. Many fi...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Syslog with RFC 5424 support

Syslog with RFC 5424 support
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered