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Enable volume sharing and set storage template on multiple volumes in GUI

When multiple storage volumes are being created or onboarded through PowerVC GUI, the volume sharing and set storage template options can only be done on one volume at a time. This is very time consuming and laborious job from the GUI when the num...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

1040 dashboard improvement: Resource summary : partitions deactivated instead of warning

1040 dashboard design changed required to improve user experience: under Resource summary ; remove deactivated partitions from the warning counter. Or even better let the deactivated partions have a unique counter: i.e. "inactive".
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Enable iASP column in IBM Navigator list view

IBM Navigator for i brings in new functionality in every release and customers are appreciating it. However we are still missing this IASP column in the view when we are viewing two or more systems together. For the disk usage we have *SYSBAS incl...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Add Native DCM support for ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

IBM i 7.4 introduced APIs that support Native Digital Certificate Management, I would like IBM to build on this a deliver a natively supported ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) protocol support to allow IBM i to automatically req...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

Extend RPG compiler messages to support modern RPG naming

The current design for the compiler messages does not support the enhancements to modernize the RPG language. When messages are returned to a client via the *EVENTF option, the replacement values for the messages are limited to legacy system names...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Future consideration

Audit which CL commands was executed using the QCMDEXC Procedure or scalar function.

Today if you execute a CL command inside of a QCMDEXC scalar function or QCMDEXC procedure, they are not audited. It would be extreamly helpful especially from a security perspective to be able to audit the commands that are executed that way.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

Improve time to get Full Sysdump in Highend Mission critical systems with huge amount of memory

As IBM we describe Highend Power servers as one of the most resilient and available platforms to hold mission critical workloads. Those servers have increasing amount of memory (several TB) and hold many workloads in parallel thanks to our PowerVM...
7 months ago in Power Systems Design 0 Planned for future release

Changing the SRIOV port label on an existing Network Template

Currently editing the SRIOV port label on existing network template is not possible, this is important for customers who are using SEA based hosts and are adding SRIOV based hosts to PowerVC. Even for the same network, customer's have to create ne...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Option to only use one IPG per VM for all volumes, other than IPG for Tape

When multiple IPGs are specified in one Storage Connectivity Group, PowerVC uses multiple IPG for storage volume provisioning to a VM. This creates lot of VFC adapters/Zones/Storage Host Entries for each VM, creating lot of complexity in managemen...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add availability info (version/release/TR) to Info Center

Please add availability info to RPGLE BIFs, SQL functions/procedures, catalog views and IBM i services (like table functions, etc.). Some information like: Available since 7.3 TR 2 and 7.4 This would make it easy to check backward compatibility.
9 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 3 Submitted

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