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    PowerVC should fully support Peer Zoning

    Can we please get PowerVC to fully support Peer Zoning. It was an idea in 2023 but we now in 2025 and still no Peer Zoning. This is an industry best practice recommended by IBM and Broadcom.
    23 days ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Create a "Code for IBM i" Extension for JetBrains PyCharm (similar to the one for Visual Studio Code)

    Currently, the "Code for IBM i" extension is available for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers working on IBM i to benefit from a modern and integrated development environment. However, many developers also use JetBrains PyCharm for their proj...
    18 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

    RTVCLSRC in SRCSTMF

    When you retrieve the source of a CLP or CLLE program you must indicate a source file, for example: QCLSRC, but it is impossible to indicate the IFS example: /HOME/USER/CLLE/ . The idea is therefore to add the SRCSTMF() parameter to the RTVCLSRC c...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Future consideration

    Different time zones for the HMC

    Small manufacturing customers very often use onre single Power System for their ERP infrasturcure, but they may have several LPARs for their subsidaries in Asia, Europe and Americas. These regions have different time zones, but the HMC has only on...
    about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted
    247 VOTE

    Machine pool minimum size setting for path switch.

    Please refer to TS005543906(CritSit(MEC)) . The system is configured with multi-path storage via SAN switch. The serious problem (5250 telnet terminals dropped) happened when the system did path switch. It was because the lack of machine pool and ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Storage 4 Not under consideration

    Edit copy members in the same editor window they are used in

    It would be extremely useful and functional to be able to edit the included copy (/copy) members in the same editor where the main program is being edited.The ability to edit copy members by opening them directly from the main source is very conve...
    3 days ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 0 Submitted

    VMRDR needs to handle SSH login security banners displayed by a storage_agent

    When running a discover on a workgroup, if the remote storage_agent (like a FS9200) has a security login banner enabled, VMRDR is reading that banner as actual input to be parsed instead of ignoring it and only reading the true data. When connecti...
    3 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Add *ALLUSR in command RSTLIBBRM

    RSTLIBBRM SAVLIB(*ALLUSR) - this is required to restore to another partition using BRMS network.
    3 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 0 Submitted

    Provide an API to extract the DSPPGMREF information

    There currently is no API to get the output of DSPPFMREF which makes extracting and development of tools cumbersome. There's *OUTFILE support but this is not flexible enough as it requires an intermediate step that complicates things like building...
    9 days ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

    PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

    Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
    11 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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