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In powerVM,the transmit speed of the virtual ethernet adapter is too low ,which is usting the 10GB physical adapter

Dear IBM, we encounter a performance issue in VIOS and VIOC.we found we have nothing to do to improve the virtual network adapter transmit speed,based on the 10GB physical adapter.BUT in our datacenter ,there is 140+ 780 &880 facing the same i...
about 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Tie Breaker disk add site priority

It will be useful if we would add a priority option to the tiebreaker solution.The idea is: - If the system with a lower priority will do a sleep of some seconds (need to be configurable), before it tries to get hold of the Tie-breaker. This would...
over 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

Provide IBM i observability support for OpenTelemetry.io

OpenTelemetry or "Otel" for short provides a vendor-neutral open-source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics and logs. As an industry-standard it is natively suppor...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

Add automatic vNIC physical adapter selection redundancy to LPMs

When we use the HMC or LPM Tool to LPM LPARs with vNICs it will sometimes give the Primary and backup SR-IOV Logical to the same physical adapter. This removes the redundancy. The source logical ports are on different adapters but after LPMing the...
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Allow variable number of arguments on SQL CONCAT function

The current implementation of CONCAT only allows two parameters, for example CONCAT('hello', 'world') which makes concatenating multiple values cumbersome. This would for example result in CONCAT(CONCAT('hello', 'world'), 'again') for 3 strings. I...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

New RPG figurative constant *CLEAR.

The new figurative constant *CLEAR assumes his value by the field type. For example, with a character field the value is *BLANK, with a numeric field the value is *ZERO, with an indicator the value is *OFF and so on. In other words, *CLEAR has the...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Not under consideration

Generate performance reports based on *HSTFILE, and also have the possibility of automate report generation if possible.

I would like to be able to generate reports based on historical data, and also be able to automate it's generation. Use Case: For instance, generate reports on the 1st of each month for the previous months, for CPU utilization, disk arm usage, dis...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 1 Future consideration

Remove "Provide Feedback" popup from HMC login

Please remove the random "Provide Feedback" popup when logging into the HMC, or at least provide an option to disable it permanently (not just "Not Now"). This is not an appropriate time or place to collect feedback / perform marketing functions.
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Allow for a user specific version of AcsConfig.properties in the users home directory

Allow for a user specific version of AcsConfig.properties in the users home directory that will be considered before the versions in the iacs directory and the jar file. This will allow users to have their own properties that will not be overwritt...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

TLS 1.3 5250 emulation support

In 2016 support for TLS1.2 was added for 5250 emulation. The IETF approved RFC 8446 for TLS1.3 and support in the emulators should be adopted Use Case: Increased security protocol support.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration