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Overland-Tandberg, the industry supplier of RDX docks, has gone bankrupt and ceased operations. This caused the shipping stop of RDX for all Power10 products. RDX was very popular in the Italy market, it was the backup solution for all entry Power models. No other existing alternative to RDX is so cheap, easy to use and functional as RDX was. IBM could mitigate the impact of the RDX issue making the USB Flash drives (memory keys or thumb drives) a valid alternative for backups. It will be a customer decision to pursue such kind of solution for the backup (for example a customer could decide to use the USB drive only as an Alternate IPL device) but IBM must make this option reasonable and feasible. The requirement for IBM is to certify the USB drive to work with flash devices larger than 256GB both with IBM i and AIX. Currently, the 256GB size limit https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-removable-media-optical-devices prevents many customers to consider the USB drive as a possible alternative of RDX.

RDX was very popular in the Italy market, it was the backup solution for all entry Power models with IBM i and there is not a valid alternative with low price
6 days ago in Power Systems Design 1 Submitted

Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
10 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

Enhance management of Session Timeout Interval for Navigator for i

Currently System Operators can not adjust their own Session Timeout Interval. The setting requires *ALLOBJ special authority. Another user with *ALLOBJ authority can't change the setting for the users without it. Instead, *ALLOBJ authority must be...
3 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Needs more information

Allow COALESCE to provide automatic CAST

I have this line in a CREATE VIEW statement: coalesce(va.vaaddress1, '?Unknown') as vaaddress1, When the view is accessed using SQL embedded in ILEPRPG, the SQLSTATE becomes 01004. VAADDRESS1 is defined in a SQL TABLE as CHAR(40). It would save a ...
3 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Authority Collection should include "object attribute"

Authority Collection should include "object attribute" along with the existing information about objects being accessed (object schema, object name, object type). Currently it is not possible to discern a physical file from a display file using th...
21 days ago in IBM i / Security 0 Submitted

Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Free Tier of IBM AIX to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Problem Description: The IBM AIX operating system is a powerful and respected platform, but its accessibility is currently very limited. The high costs associated with purchasing dedicated Power Systems hardware and software licenses create a sign...
10 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Make spoolfile searching case insensitive

When searching a spooled file, the information must be entered case sensitive. Instead of searching for escape, I have to search for Escape in order to find escape messages in job logs. Instead of searching for 'library list changed', I have to se...
26 days ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted
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GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
11 months ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 8 Future consideration

TS2290 and 7226-1U3 (LTO-9) SAS HH Tape drive support AIX & VIOS

LTO-9 SAS HH connected 7226 tape drives are not supported in AIX / VIOS partitions and may log VRSAS_FABRIC_ERROR, SRN2D11-4101 Please resolve this issue as soon as possible.SSIC is supported, but power is not.We would like to provide a SAS card t...
14 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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