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    Allow VIOS/Novalink as proxy for RMC connection (auto-discovery?)

    In our case the HMC does not have an RMC connection to the AIX and Linux LPARs due to our networking setup; it DOES have an RMC connection to the Virtual I/O Servers, which in turn have an RMC connection to Novalink, which acts as the managing ins...
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add item to RGZPFM status file to show progress

    For system where table reorganizations have to be done frequently but within a timeframe, it would be useful to know the percentage at which a reorganization was stopped, for analysis and forecasting. Schemas in ACS already shows progress, but the...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    create a temp per process ifs dir QTEMP like in use

    For security and auto cleanup, would be useful to have a particular named directory in IFS called for example /QTEMP or /jobtmp etc. that is local to the process (and PASE process) and behaves just like the QTEMP library. Or something autogenerate...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Submitted

    Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers

    For Power9 Ubuntu was supported for Novalink. For Power10 it is not, and only RHEL is supported and it is not free. We need to have Ubuntu 22.04 support for Novalink on Power10 scale-out servers. Ubuntu 22.04 is a long term support so it is worth ...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 6 Future consideration

    Detailing environmental variables used by IBM products

    It would be a great starting point having IBM list the environmental variables used for controlling additional application behavior allowing administrators the ability in some cases to control additional system behavior. eg QIBM_SMTP_FWDSVR_LCL_MAIL
    3 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 2 Submitted

    Project names should be more clearly visible and sorted

    When you start PowerVC it asks you which project you wish to work on (if you have access to more than one I guess). It displays prominently across the top of the screen. If you want to change the project you are working on, you get a short list of...
    4 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

    Why is this necessary? After applying an efix (for example security fixes) the TE (Trusted Execution) tsd.dat is modified and stanza are replace with keyword VOLATILE. This happens for the replaced binaries (executables) and libraries, that were r...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

    %repeat as a BIF in RPGLE

    Now we have the nice string function like %upper,() %lef(), %right() .. etc. and this is just great !! let's continue this toolbox for string functions: Just like the SQL scalar function REPEAT it would be appreciated to have the equivalent functi...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Add support for Java 21 to IBM i

    Java 21 is needed so we can use new features also on IBM i. It will enable IBM i community to run applications that requires java 21. Java 21 (IBM Semeru) is already available for other platforms.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / JAVA 3 Submitted

    Add WHEN-IS-NOT clause to the new SELECT statement

    The traditional SELECT/ENDSL allows when a=b and also allows when a <> b. However, the new SELECT/WHEN-IS/ENDSL does not allow a negative comparison, and forces me to go back to the older style. In this shop [and others I have worked in], th...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

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