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Add a System Location column to HMC table view

Currently, the HMC table view lists managed systems with many details such as system name, type, serial number, and state etc. However, it lacks a dedicated “System Location” column. This RFE proposes adding a “System Location” field to the HMC ta...
6 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Native AIX syslog function should support encrypted logs when forwarding to a central syslog server

In this day and age of OS security-awareness and its importance within operating systems (being available out of the box), critical OS logging functions such as syslog should support encrypting the logs if they need to be forwarded to a central co...
4 months ago in AIX Submitted

Provide support for Azure Local

Client requests that our 9500 storage be supported for Azure Local
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Hardware Submitted

Add Function Usage for SQL Statements similar to Allowed SQL Statements in Query Manager

Query Manager allows for limiting of SQL Statements, ALTER, DELETE, UPDATE, INSERT, etc. which is helpful to reduce the amount of users who can use SQL to manipulate tables. However, it only works within Query Manager. Can a Function Usage be adde...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Not under consideration

RSEAPI - Force session usage

Hello, APIs can be used either with basic auth or by opening a session using a token. Some APIs, such as those that return session information, can only be called with a token. The setting to limit usage, `POST /api/v1/admin/settings`, only applie...
2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving Future consideration

LVM mirroring across VGs (enables eg. online FS migration from one vg to another)

LVM is great and has been for decades. Many LVM manipulations can be done online without unmounting filesystems or stopping the applications, which is an advantage compared to other OS's. There are, however, still a few things that require to stop...
4 months ago in AIX Under review

PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
5 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

Change Data Capture (CDC) support in Db2 for i

We have a requirement to stream data in realtime from Db2 for i to other consumers for AI, data warehouse and other systems. I'm aware there are third party products available like Debezium, Fivetran and others, and you can always roll your own. H...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Not under consideration

Allow to initialize arrays using %list

Allow for arrays to be initialized using %list command, for example: dcl-s allowedValues int(10) dim(4) inz(%list(1:2:3:4)); Plus error checking when initial value exceeds array size etc.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

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