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Allow to define local procedures within a procedure.

Currently you can achieve some kind of encapsulation by defining subroutines inside a procedure. It would be nice to change those subroutines into "local" --or private-- procedures.
4 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Enable Virtual Serial Number (VSN) for Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

As currently defined, a Virtual Serial Number (VSN) can only be used once for a single LPAR, with cores fully assigned. This approach significantly limits flexibility. For example, consider a scenario with three LPARs, each assigned 0.4 cores. The...
11 days ago in IBM i / Hardware 0 Submitted

Add user to SEP parameter so we can target another users job with that SEP

With the recent release of SEP support for Merlin and VS Code, it seems that they made it just use the user you connected to the IBM i with. In my product, we rarely (dare I say never) want to set an SEP on our current user. We need to 'catch' the...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Provide ibmi-oss Python Versions greater than 3.9, required for Ansible Control Nodes >= 2.16 on the IBM i

Ansible-Core 2.15 went out of support on 11/2024.The newer levels of Ansible-Core, >= 2.16, require either Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 or greater in order to run on the IBM i as a control node.See this link:=========================================...
10 days ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

The possibility to add a secondary ip address in the ASP COPY DESCRIPTION configuration.

It is useful if your primary management port on the SAN is unreachable for some reason.
3 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

Support vHMC on Hyper-v

Many customers are using vmware, but with new license/broadcom challenges then other hypervisors are asked for. Smaller sites dont have a separate Power systems (or 2) to use for the vHMC so they are forced to either purchase the CR2 (best choice ...
8 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

GENERATED_SPREADSHEET with kerberos and password *NONE

In an evironments with kerberos and users with password *NONE the scalar funcion doesn't work (MSGSY0271), it would be great if this limitation didn`t exist.
14 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Under review

HMC Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode

HMC should have a Patch Management: Central Patch Management for AIX, PowerVM, Firmware and Microcode. IBM should provide a easy way for Patch Management. System Firmware and Adapter microcode report in one tool (something Microcode Discovery tool...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 13 Planned for future release

watsonx and Openshift.ai support on Power. Early Acces Program (Beta testing)

We do have a potentially big oppy in Spain in INDRA. They work for Minitry of Defense and they are starting a project to deal with RADAR imaging where they want to use AI but, given the confidential characteristics of the data, they are promoting ...
about 2 months ago in Power Ecosystem Software / Government (includes education) 3 Future consideration

For High Availability - remove hostname dependency

High available setups require the use of a service-IP address. The existing hostname dependency make such kind of HA requirements very challenging. Removing the hostname dependency would make such requests a lot easier to implement.
30 days ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

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