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IBM i IWS Client: Add option to allow unknown tags in response

My company used the Integrated Web Services (IWS) Client tool wsdl2rpg.sh to generate a *SRVPGM that we are using in production to consume a vendor partner's web service. Every few months the vendor releases enhancements to their web service, whic...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Improvement of RDi Commands log and Joblog view

RDi view Commands Log should become more readable by providing means to filter displayed text. Best would be to filter by program call level, and first and second level message text. The same should be provided for the Joblog View.Also it should b...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

Count recursive calls (all/direct)

Requesting a built in function to recognize if a proc was called recursively with a parameter to recognize if it was called by itself. Ex: dcl-proc chkRecursion;dcl-pi chkRecursion end-pi;count = %recursion();countDirect = %recursion( *on );if cou...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

re-add the ability to edit SR-IOV backing device editing in LPM gui

In the v9 interface when performing an LPM verfication, you could modify the backing device mappings, such that the % of logical port, which VIO to control that backing device, etc, could all be modified to accomodate the possible differences in b...
12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

User profile alias.

Usualy the network account is "name.surname", so I'd like to have the same on the IBM i user profile. For example: CRTUSRPRF USRPRF(SURNAME) TEXT('Name Surname') ALIAS('name.surname'). Use Case: When the user connects to IBM i server from a client...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Not under consideration

Port Pandoc

Pandoc is a useful tool that allows conversion between different document types. One example is markdown to pdf. https://pandoc.org/ Pandoc is written Haskell so it would likely need to be ported prior. Haskell has support for AIX so porting shoul...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Not under consideration

Support for NFS in updlic

Almost all HMC commands support NFS as a way of obtaining updates or storing information. updlic can't use nfs now: ``` -r - the repository from which LIC updates will be retrieved: ibmwebsite - IBM service website ftp - FTP site sftp - secure FTP...
12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Error message when /usr/bin/hostnew not found

if /usr/bin/hostnew not found, host -n will return code 1, but doesn't write any error message to stderr. For better managability it'd be good to have some error message together with the return code, like: /usr/bin/hostnew not found, please insta...
12 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Command / SQL service to retrieve specific IPL attributes

Increased use of flash copy requires changes to IPL attributes before the copy has been made, to control the behaviour of the cloned partition. These changes need to be reverted on the parent partition to avoid unwanted behaviour at IPL. Althoug...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Future consideration

VIOS syslog configuration for splunk

We will move into Service Now as a replacement from existing solution. Splunk is used by the Service Now solution. To create incidents for VIOs I need syslog data sent to splunk.
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

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