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Enhancement request for iostat on NVMe disks

On AIX for NVMe the disk iostat tool currently does not provide data for read service time, write service time and queue service time sections. Is there a way to enable the additional statistics or will it be enabled in a future software update (V...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

What commands are linked to what special authority?

I want to monitor what commands needing special authority are used by who.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 3 Future consideration

5733-icc allow/support from local files in qsys.lib

manual says local file can't be in qsys.lib. If you create savf of file, library/schema as a savf and want to upload to cloud, this should be allowed, even if one has to use qsys.lib/mylib.lib/myfile.file method (it works)
6 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

Gracefully Shutdown of Prestarted Jobs

When there is Program monitored error within an prestarted Job we Need a way to end the Job gracefully. Therefore we want to be able to send a Program defined Response while inhibiting other requests from entering the prestarted Job.Which means th...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

Need to fix the CPU utilization graph

Issue: CPU utilization graph is not matching to other tools example lpr2rrd1. CPU utilization graph scale representation is in %, whereas other performance tools representing in core base. Please change accordingly.2. The average CPU utilization g...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Partitioned tables increase limit partitions (more than 256 partitions)

Hello, We think that it will be useful increase actual limit of 256 partitions on a partitioned table. Our customer generates really big amount of information (Banking customer), and our estimations are that on next year he won't have enough ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add MSGF to program references

We commonly use a change management system to do impact analysis on IBM i objects in our applications. The DSPPGMREF in correctly returns *FILE for a *MSGF reference in CLP or CLLE. The command will be correct to not return anything, but it is imp...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RDi <End> behavior

<End> key should not consider white space when moving to the end of the line. This is especially troublesome when breaking a line up or cutting + pasting. Use Case: editing code
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Future consideration

Stop denial of service attack caused by using 3 part naming in a H/A environment

When I set up DB2 alias as per https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/rdb-relational-database-setting-brms-high-availability-environmentand then use 3 part naming in STATIC sql it initializes a denial of service attack and makes the system unusable. IB...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Option to Normalize HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADER Fields (Key Names) in the QSYS2 HTTP Functions

The HTTP header fields are case-insensitive. That is, content-type, CONTENT-TYPE, and CoNtEnT-tYpE are all allowed uses of the IANA registered field Content-Type. Previously, when using the SYSTOOLS HTTP table functions (e.g., SYSTOOLS.HTTPGETCLO...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration