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PowerVC add support for mkvolume in place of mkvdisk

mkvdisk does not fully support iogroup placement ibm.com mkvolume Use the mkvolume command to create an empty volume from existing storage pools. You can use this command for high availability configurations that include HyperSwap, but it can also...
11 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Support an ADD MEMBER option on the GENERATE_SQL SQL Stored Procedure

Today if the output source file and member do not exist, the procedure fails. I think the proc should add/replace the data in the output member but also add the member if it does not exist.
12 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Add format level identifier to journal entries for database journaling

Today, journaling of database supply a lot of usefull information, but one is missing : the format level identifier, in other words, the description of the fields. Why do I need that ? Because sometimles I change a filed in a file. Then this file ...
12 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

HMC primary VS HMC backup

Hello, Our customer "Etat de Geneve" many Power systems with PowerVC and dual HMC. When the primary HMC fails, the backup HMC will take over the management of LPARs and that is ok. But at the time the primary HMC has recovered it stays as it would...
12 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Insecure HTTP Response Header Configuration Target(s) : xxxxxxx.com:2003/Navigator

We have external audit and according their finding lis we sould solve this trouble. I created a normal support case TS016304722 and this request was recommende.
12 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

MQT maintained by system

MQT is a really good choice to speed up sql analysis. The main problem we are facing is to refresh it without locking. Like in other DB2 implementations for Windows and Unix ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=statements-refresh-table ) i...
12 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Password manager integration in ACS

It would be great to have an integration where I could store all my passwords in for example 1Password and easily populate user id and password in ACS from there.
12 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

PDF/A with ZUGFeRD

Due to EU laws, we need the ability to create PDF/A files with ZUGFeRD.
13 days ago in IBM i / Print 0 Submitted

UAK expiry - send an alert from the HMC before it expires

When a UAK expires it creates a lot of noise - the attention LED is lit against a managed system, a serviceable event is generated/sent and an alert sent to every LPAR on the managed system. Whilst I am aware that it is possible to automate the UA...
14 days ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Submitted

managment librairies list for librairies product with SQL *SYS Convention Name

When you use a select in SQL without qualification and SQL naming *SYS, you use the library list possibilities with a litle different *PRDLIB i have a command CMD PROMPT('test mycmd') PRDLIB(MYLIB) a program associate to thic command ...
14 days ago in IBM i / AI with IBM i 1 Submitted

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